I think it’s such an extraordinary story. It’s really a great story of friendship, betrayal, faith, and miracles. Survivor stories for me are always incredibly inspiring and Yossi wrote a beautiful book. I feel that we are all survivors of something, whether it is a broken heart, a disease, or a divorce. Thank-you for this remarkable film, which spurred me to read Ghinsberg’s book: What attracted you to this story? Dana Lustig with director Greg McLean and Radcliffe. Jungle is now available on DVD and a special movie tie-in edition of Ghinsberg’s memoir, with a foreword by Radcliffe and an introduction by McLean, is now available from Skyhorse Publishing. In what follows, we discuss this project and the process of realizing it on screen. Lustig graduated AFI, where she is now a faculty member and a mentor. Lustig was born in Israel, and after her army service she moved to LA. In 2017, Lustig completed the production for Look Away, directed by Fauda Assaf Bernstein, and starring Jason Isaacs, Mira Sorvino and India Eisley. Lustig has directed five feature films and produced over 20 independent features. This story is related in Ghinsberg’s powerful memoir and now the subject of Jungle, a film adaptation directed by Greg McLean and produced by Dana Lustig. Ghinsberg and Kevin will survive, while the fates of Marcus and Karl remain unknown to this day: we learn, with Ghinsberg and Kevin, that Karl was a fugitive. Following a rafting accident, Ghinsberg is also separated from his partner (Kevin) and pressured to survive on his own. Some weeks into the trip, the group separated into two. In Bolivia, 1981, Yossi Ghinsberg (played by Daniel Radcliffe), Kevin (Alex Russell), and Marcus (Joel Jackson) meet the mysterious (and apparently more experienced) traveler Karl (Thomas Kretschmann), who becomes their guide into the uncharted Amazon.
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