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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
New York City, New York, USA
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award…
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her 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. Their first scripted film venture was Nyad, a biopic chronicling Diana Nyad's quest to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. Vasarhelyi grew up in New York City, and is the daughter of Marina Vasarhelyi, a college administrator, and Miklós Vásárhelyi, a college professor. Her father is a Hungarian-born Brazilian and her mother is from Hong Kong. Vasarhelyi is a graduate of The Brearley School. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
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2026
Everest: The Other Side
Movie Self
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2026
The Lake
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Love+War
Movie Director
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2025
Lost in the Jungle
Movie Director
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2024
Endurance
Movie Director
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2024
Photographer
TV show Director
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2023
NYAD
Movie Director
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2023
Angel City
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Wild Life
Movie Producer
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2022
Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Return to Space
Movie Director
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2021
The Rescue
Movie Producer
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2018
Enhanced
TV show Director
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2018
What if He Falls?
Movie Director
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2018
Free Solo
Movie Director
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
Incorruptible
Movie Director
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2015
Meru
Movie Editor
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2013
Touba
Movie Director
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2008
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Movie Director
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2003
A Normal Life
Movie Narrator
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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Bartali
Movie Director
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Into The Unknown
TV show Creator
