Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker, born in 1977 or 1978. She directed, together with her then-husband Jimmy Chin, the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and 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 about Diana Nyad's quest to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ( VAH-sÉ™-REL-ee; born 1977 or 1978) is an American documentary filmmaker.
Article body: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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.
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1978-12-30
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
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