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.

Фільмографія

• 2026Everest: The Other Side — Self, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2026The Lake — Executive Producer
• 2025Lost in the Jungle — Director, Producer
• 2025Love+War — Director, Producer
• 2024Endurance — Director, Producer
• Photographer — Executive Producer, Director
• Angel City — Executive Producer
• 2023Wild Life — Director, Producer
• 2023Наяд — Director
• Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin — Executive Producer
• 2022Return to Space — Director, Producer
• 2021The Rescue — Producer, Director
• Enhanced — Director
• 2018What if He Falls? — Director
• 2018Фрі-соло — Director, Producer
• 2015Incorruptible — Director
• 2015Meru — Director, Editor, Producer
• 2013Touba — Director
• 2008Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2003A Normal Life — Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
• Bartali — Director, Producer
• Into The Unknown — Creator

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Оскар — Self