Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her then-husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex Honnold and his free solo climb of El Capitan in June 2017.
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Filmography 17
Free Solo
NYAD
Return to Space
The Rescue
Meru
Endurance
Wild Life
Lost in the Jungle
Love+War
Incorruptible
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
A Normal Life
The Lake
Bartali
Touba
What if He Falls?44 credits on file
Television 7
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscars
Angel City
Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her then-husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex Honnold and his free solo climb of El Capitan in June 2017. Vasarhelyi and Chin's first scripted film venture was Nyad, a biopic chronicling Diana Nyad's quest to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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