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Oscar Docs 2019: Free Solo
Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin talk about "Free Solo," their feature-length documentary nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary.
"There was absolutely no margin for error, not only on Alex’s part but on ours," says Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, one of the directors of #FreeSolo, a documentary on Alex Honnold's free climb of El Capitan in Yosemite.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 14, 2019"In the end, we decided that we trusted Alex, we believed in Alex, we knew… that he was never going to go up there unless he was 100 percent prepared," says @jimkchin on his film #FreeSolo.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 14, 2019"The film would always have been same film because it was about honoring Alex and this idea of living a life of intention," says Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, on the challenge of filming the potential death of Alex Honnold's free climb for #FreeSolo.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 14, 2019