If anyone deserves a break from work, it’s Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The married couple has been making critically acclaimed documentaries for nearly a decade.
Their films include Meru, a climbing doc about a trio’s attempt to summit Meru Peak; The Rescue, an exploration of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue; and Free Solo, their Emmy- and Oscar-winning documentary about Alex Honnold’s free solo climb of El Capitan. Vasarhelyi and Chin even found the time to make their first narrative film, Nyad, a biopic about Diana Nyad’s swim from Cuba to Florida.
Chin: It is still in the garage. I actually haven’t checked in six months. I hope it’s still in the garage.For Photographer, you directed Cristina and Paul’s episode about ocean conservation and their voyage to the Bahamas. What about their story stood out as the one you wanted to direct? Vasarhelyi: I think there’s an open-heartedness to Cristina and a commitment, like a dogged commitment, to bettering our world, which is not dissimilar to us, but it’s a great reminder. It’s inspiring. It’s not looking so great for the environment right now, but they still care, and they still are willing to do everything in their power.
So you’ll see that all the episodes are slightly stylistically different, but also very appropriate to their subject matter. We were very committed to also presenting diversity … in terms of gender and color and place, points of view. I think our films are all very different, even though they may look at similar themes or questions. Craft-wise, they’re quite different. And that’s always been kind of exciting for us.
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