FREE SOLO EXPERIENCE

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Los Angeles

FREE SOLO EXPERIENCE

E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Bob Eisenhardt

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Saturday, August 10, 2019

This program is FULL

Screening of Free Solo.

Meet the directors of Free Solo, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, as well as editor Bob Eisenhardt. Immerse yourself in Alex Honnold's epic and heart-racing climb of El Capitan through the Emmy-nominated 360 experience, a climbing wall, a picture-editing demo and more! 


SYNOPSIS

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“Meru”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope.

Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.