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Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2019
Filmography14 titles
Photographer
2024Executive Producer
2024Executive Producer
The Rescue
2021Director, Producer
2021Director, Producer
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
2008Director, Producer, Writer
2008Director, Producer, Writer
Free Solo
2018Director, Producer
2018Director, Producer
Lost in the Jungle
2024Director, Producer
2024Director, Producer
Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin
2022Executive Producer
2022Executive Producer
Meru
2015Director, Editor, Producer
2015Director, Editor, Producer
Wild Life
2023Director, Producer
2023Director, Producer
Endurance
2024Director, Producer
2024Director, Producer
Nyad
2023Director
2023Director
Love+War
2025Director, Producer
2025Director, Producer
Return to Space
2022Director, Producer
2022Director, Producer
Angel City
2023Executive Producer
2023Executive Producer
Touba
2013Director
2013Director