Giannina Scott Options Rights To Mat Youkee’s ‘Children Of The Jungle’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Giannina Scott has optioned the rights to journalist Mat Youkee‘s book proposal Children of the Jungle: The True Story Behind the Survival of Four Children in the Amazon.Giannina brought the project to Scott Free, who is producing, under her Cara Films banner, alongside Ridley Scott and Scott Free President Michael Pruss.
There are no other attachments at this time and it’s not set-up at a studio yet. The story follows the June 2023 rescue of June 2023 rescue of four indigenous children — Lesly, Soleiny, Tien, and Cristin — after forty days in the Colombian Amazon has been heralded as one of the great survival stories.
Through interviews with the family, members of the indigenous and military search teams, and elders from Colombia’s Amazonian communities, FORTYDAYS IN THE JUNGLE tells this remarkable story in the words of it’s fascinating and complex characters.
It goes further, however, in investigating the brutal history, resilient culture and current struggles of Colombia’s indigenous communities.
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