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词条 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Awards

  5. Filmography

  6. References

  7. External links

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| occupation = Director, producer
| years_active = 2003-present
| spouse = Jimmy Chin
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (born {{circa}} {{Birth based on age as of date|33|2013|05|26|noage=1}})[1] is a 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.

Early life and education

Vasarhelyi grew up in New York City, and is the daughter of Marina Vasarhelyi, a college administrator, and Miklos Vasarhelyi, a college professor.[1] Her father is from Hungary and her mother is from Hong Kong.[2] Vasarhelyi is a graduate of The Brearley School. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.

Career

Vasarhelyi worked in 2004 as an assistant to director Mike Nichols on the film Closer and has worked extensively with Emmy-Award-winning cinematographer Scott Duncan documenting events such as the Dakar Rally.

Her first film, A Normal Life, won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003. Her second film, Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love, was released in theaters in the United States and internationally. The film premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and won numerous awards including the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival in 2008 and a nomination for the Pare Lorentz Award at the 2009 International Documentary Association Awards.

In 2013, Vasarhelyi completed Touba, a documentary on the annual Mouride pilgrimage, the Grand Magaal in Touba, Senegal. It premiered at SXSW 2013, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Best Cinematography.

She returned to Senegal to document the presidential elections of 2012. Incorruptible (formerly An African Spring), the story of Senegalese democracy, won the Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award in 2015. In 2015, Brandon Wilson from IndieWire wrote that Vasarhelyi's "familiarity with the country pays dividends and elevates the piece from being just another tale of civic dysfunction on the African continent." [3]

One of Vasarhelyi's films as a director include the highest grossing independent documentary film of 2015, Meru (Oscars Shortlist 2016; Sundance Audience Award 2015). Variety magazine said: "Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi's Sundance audience award winner is one of the best sports documentaries of its type in recent years."[4]

Vasarhelyi and Chin's 2018 film Free Solo won the People's Choice Award: Documentaries at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] The film has received critical claim as both a riveting documentary and a profound story of human endeavor.[6] Jeannette Catsoulis from The New York Times called Free Solo, "an engaging study of a perfect match between passion and personality."[7]

Vasarhelyi and Chin discuss filming the climb in their New York Times opinion piece, saying, "Throughout history, documentarians have had to struggle with the blurred lines of their responsibility to their subjects. We were haunted by the possibility that our presence might put him at more risk every time we turned on the cameras." [8]

Vasarhelyi has directed a New York Times Op Doc, an episode for Netflix’s non-fiction design series ABSTRACT, and two episodes for ESPN’s non-fiction series Future of Sports.

Free Solo won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Vasarhelyi 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 was selected as a 2013 Sundance Documentary Film Fellow, named one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005[4] and received an Achievement Award from Creative Visions foundation in 2008.

Personal life

Vasarhelyi married Chin, a photographer for National Geographic and a professional skier and climber, on May 26, 2013.[1] Their daughter, Marina, was born on September 25, 2013, and their son, James, was born on December 7, 2015. Vasarhelyi lives in New York City with her family. Vasarhelyi met Chin at a conference at Lake Tahoe in 2012.[9]

Awards

  • 2003: Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Feature for A Normal Life
  • 2008: Middle East International Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Award (nominee) for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: Bahamas International Film Festival Audience Award for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: Bahamas International Film Festival Spirit of Freedom Award for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: DC International Film Festival Audience Award for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: São Paulo International Film Festival Audience Award for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2008: Nashville Film Festival Music of Impact Award for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentation for Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
  • 2013: SXSW Special Jury Prize for Best Cinematography for Touba
  • 2015: Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award Winner for Incorruptible
  • 2015: Woodstock Film Festival Maverick Award for Best Feature Documentary for Incorruptible
  • 2015: One World Film Festival Václav Havel Jury Award for Incorruptible
  • 2015: Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature for Meru
  • 2015: Sundance Audience Award Winner for Meru
  • 2015: Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Documentary for Meru
  • 2015: DGA Award Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for Meru
  • 2015: PGA Award Nomination for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures for Meru
  • 2015: Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize Winner for Meru
  • 2015: Cinema Eye Honors Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Meru
  • 2015: Cinema Eye Honors Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Production for Meru
  • 2015: Cinema Eye Honors Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score for Meru
  • 2015: The New York Times, Critics' Pick for Meru
  • 2016: Oscar's Shortlist for Meru
  • 2018: People's Choice Documentary award at Toronto International Film Fest for Free Solo [10]
  • 2018: Mill Valley Film Festival Valley of the Docs People's Choice awards
  • 2018: Virginia Film Festival Documentary Feature Audience Award
  • 2018: Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary for Free Solo [11]
  • 2018: Critics Choice Award for Best Sports Documentary for Free Solo [11]
  • 2019: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Free Solo

Filmography

  • 2003: A Normal Life
  • 2008: I Bring What I Love
  • 2013: Touba
  • 2015: Incorruptible
  • 2015: Meru
  • 2017: Abstract: The Art of Design (TV series documentary)
  • 2018: Free Solo
  • 2018: Enhanced (TV series documentary)

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=Elizabeth Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin - Weddings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/fashion/weddings/elizabeth-vasarhelyi-jimmy-chin-weddings.html|work=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=26 May 2013}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/2342126/Elizabeth-Chai-Vasarhelyi-free-solo-movie|title=The Filmmaker Turning Climbing Porn into Oscar Bait|first=Lisa|last=Chase|date=September 12, 2018|website=Outside Online}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/laff-review-elizabeth-chai-vasarhelys-election-spanning-political-chronicle-incorruptible-153702/|title=LAFF Review: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhely’s Election-Spanning Political Chronicle, ‘Incorruptible’|last=Wilson|first=Brandon|date=18 June 2015|work=IndieWire|accessdate=29 November 2018|language=en-US}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/meru-review-1201487311/|title=Film Review: ‘Meru’|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|date=6 May 2015|work=Variety|accessdate=29 November 2018|language=en-US}}
5. ^[https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/tiff-2018-awards-green-book-peoples-choice-1202004060/ "TIFF 2018 Awards: ‘Green Book’ Wins the People’s Choice Award, Upsetting ‘A Star Is Born’"]. IndieWire, September 16, 2018.
6. ^Morgenstern, Joe. "'Free Solo' Review: Gripping Drama, Surpassing Spectacle." The Wall Street Journal. 27 September 2018. Accessed 16 November 2018. https://www.wsj.com/articles/free-solo-review-gripping-drama-surpassing-spectacle-1538079769.
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/movies/free-solo-review-alex-honnold-el-capitan.html?referrer=google_kp|title=Review: In ‘Free Solo,’ Braving El Capitan With Only Fingers and Toes|accessdate=29 November 2018|language=en}}
8. ^Vasarhelyi, Elizabeth Chai, and Jimmy Chin. "What If He Falls?" The New York Times. October 31, 2018. Accessed November 16, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/what-if-he-falls.html.
9. ^{{cite news|title=Tiger of the Week: Documentary Filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ’00|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/tiger-week-documentary-filmmaker-elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi-%E2%80%9900|work=Princeton Alumni Weekly|date=8 July 2013}}
10. ^"Chai Vasarhelyi." Free The Bid. Accessed November 15, 2018. https://www.freethebid.com/directors/chai-vasarhelyi/.
11. ^"Documentary Awards." Critics' Choice Awards. Accessed November 15, 2018. http://www.criticschoice.com/documentary-awards/.
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  • [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204456604574206011197846516?KEYWORDS=youssou+n%27dour Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2009]
  • THE TREATMENT/Elvis Mitchell: Chai Vasarhelyi interview, July 8, 2009
  • Elle.com interview with Chai Vasarhelyi, July 1, 2009
  • New York Magazine May 10, 2009

External links

  • {{Official|littlemonsterfilms.com}}
  • {{IMDb name|1888091}}
  • Meru website
  • [https://www.freethebid.com/directors/chai-vasarhelyi/ Chai Vasarhelyi"], Freethebid.com
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/what-if-he-falls.html "What if He Falls?"], New York Times Op-Doc Opinion piece by Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
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