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Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017.
Jimmy Chin (born October 12, 1973) [1] is an American professional mountain athlete, ... Free Solo had the highest-grossing opening weekend in history for a ...
Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a, the first-ever big wall free solo ascent at that grade), [3] a climb described in The New York ...
After making the leap to narrative filmmaking last year with “Nyad,” Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have returned to their ... Since their film “Free Solo” won the Oscar in ...
Free Solo’s path to likely Emmy nominations has been paved with gold—the Oscar kind. The film about mountain climber Alex Honnold’s breathtaking ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan—without ...
Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have given audiences thrilling and sometimes terrifying front-row seats to incredible feats of human ambition in their documentary work. “It ...
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (/ ˌ v ɑː s ə ˈ r ɛ l i / VAH-sə-REL-ee; [1] born 1977 or 1978) [2] 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.
While their most recent doc “The Rescue” – which has a market screening this week at IDFA – continues its festival and award-circuit run, directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have been ...