FREE SOLO (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jimmy Chin (Meru), director, producer, cinematographer; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (A Normal Life), director, producer; Shannon Dill (Running the Sahara) and Evan Hayes (Everest), producers; Marco Beltrami (The Hurt Locker), composer; Matt Clegg (Are We Not Cats), Clair Popkin (Jim: The James Foley Story) and Mikey Schaefer (film debut), cinematographers; Bob Eisenhardt (Mr. Untouchable), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 2017, American rock climber Alex Honnold sets out to perform a daring free solo climb of the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The record-breaking free solo climb of El Capitan by Alex Honnold is documented with great excitement and enough tension to fill an entire Mission: Impossible movie.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH DECEMBER 2018

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