Free Solo je večkrat nagrajeni ameriški dokumentarni film, ki so ga prvič predvajali na Telluride Film Festival avgusta 2018, na Toronto Film Festival 2018 je prejel nagrado občinstva med dokumentarnimi filmi, februarja 2019 pa je na na 91 podelitvi oskarjev Free Solo prejel oskarja za najboljši dokumentarni celovečerec. Odkar je bil septembra 2019 premierno predvajan v Amerik,i so z njim zaslužili kar 21 milijonov.
Režiserja Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi in Jimmy Chin sta za National Geographic posnela presunljiv, intimen in neustrašen portret solističnega skalnega plezalca Alexa Honnolda, ki si prizadeva izpolniti svoje sanje in brez vrvi sam preplezati najslavnejšo skalno steno na svetu t.i. El Capitan v Nacionalnem parku Yosemite v ZDA.
Free Solo je tako hkrati triler in navdihujoč portret športnika, katerega rezultat je nedvomno zmagoslavje človeškega duha.
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, Shannon Dill |
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin |
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Portretiranc: Alex Honnold
Kinomatografija: Jimmy Chin
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Award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is the director and producer of FREE SOLO, from National Geographic Documentary Films. Co-directed with Jimmy Chin, the film offers an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares for and then achieves his lifelong dream: to climb the face of the world's most famous rock ... without a rope.
Vasarhelyi's films as a director include "Meru" (Oscars Shortlist 2016; Sundance Audience Award 2015); "Incorruptible" (Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award 2016); "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" (Oscilloscope, 2009), which premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals; "A Normal Life" (Tribeca Film Festival, Best Documentary 2003); and "Touba" (SXSW, Special Jury Prize Best Cinematography 2013). Vasarhelyi has directed a New York Times Op Doc, an episode for Netflix's nonfiction design series "Abstract" and two episodes for ESPN's new nonfiction series "Enhanced." She has received grants from the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Bertha Britdoc, the William and Mary Greve Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a member of the DGA as well as AMPAS. She holds a B.A. in comparative literature from Princeton University and lives in New York City.
Jimmy Chin is a professional climber, skier, mountaineer, 18-year member of The North Face Athlete Team and National Geographic Explorer. As the director, producer and cinematographer of the National Geographic Documentary Film FREE SOLO, which he co-directed with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Chin captured rock climber Alex Honnold's nail-biting free solo ascent of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan.
Consistently over the past 20 years, he has led or participated in cutting-edge climbing and ski mountaineering expeditions to all seven continents and made the first and only American ski descent from the summit of Mount Everest. Chin is also a filmmaker and National Geographic photographer. He has worked with many of the greatest explorers, adventurers and athletes of our time, documenting their exploits in the most challenging conditions and locations in the world. He has garnered numerous awards shooting on assignment for publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Outside Magazine, and has directed commercial work for a wide range of clients, including Apple, Chase, Pirelli and The North Face. His 2015 documentary "Meru," which was also co-directed by Vasarhelyi, won the Audience Award at Sundance and was nominated for best documentary by the DGA and PGA. "Meru" was also shortlisted for an Oscar.
