Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin

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Chai Vasarhelyi | Free Solo
Jimmy Chin
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Chai Vasarhelyi | The Rescue
Jimmy Chin
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CHAI VASARHELYI | Bose
Jimmy Chin
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Chai Vasarhelyi | Squarespace
Jimmy Chin
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Chai and Jimmy are an Academy Award®-winning directing duo with a shared passion for authenticity, pushing the envelope in great storytelling.
They directed and produced Free Solo, an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold, which was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019. The film also received seven Emmy awards. Their film Meru won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature. They are currently at work on several upcoming projects, including a feature documentary about the events of the dramatic rescue of the Wild Boar soccer team from the Tham Luang cave in Thailand, and a scripted feature about the distance swimmer Diana Nyad starring Annette Bening.