Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Oscar Winners Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin On ‘Photographer’ Docuseries And ‘Nyad’, And Carla Gutiérrez On Her Portrait Of Frida Kahlo
deadline.comIt’s been a remarkable past year for Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. At Telluride, they premiered their first narrative feature Nyad, a dramatization of the relentless pursuit of extreme athlete Diana Nyad to swim from Cuba to Florida without the safety of a shark cage.
The Netflix release has gone on to earn Oscar nominations for its stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. But the filmmaking couple hasn’t left the world of nonfiction cinema behind.
They return to documentary storytelling this month with Photographer, a National Geographic series about the elite artists who take some of the world’s most remarkable images of wildlife and the human family.
Vasarhelyi and Chin join the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss their six-part series, which profiles NatGeo photographers Paul Nicklen, Cristina Mittermeier, Muhammed Muheisen, Krystle Wright and others.
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