“As hard as woodpecker lips.” That’s how a US Army colonel in Afghanistan describes Lynsey Addario, the fearless and celebrated American photojournalist, someone who craves getting into the thick of battles in order to show the world the truth. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s incredible 20-year-plus career, along with her family life, come into sharp focus in Oscar®-winning filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s (Free Solo MVFF41; Nyad, MVFF 46) latest illuminating portrait of a tenacious individual committed to pursuing greatness even if it means putting themselves into harm’s way. Love + War adroitly shifts from following the intrepid Addario at work in dangerous war zones (Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and others) and humanitarian trouble spots to her home turf with her two sons and husband. This compelling documentary ponders the complexities of juggling both and addresses how Addario stared down sexism in a male-dominated profession. —Randy Myers
Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, an award-winning National Geographic photographer, and a professional climber and skier. In 2019, Chin, along with co-director and co-producer Chai Vasarhelyi, was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Free Solo.The film also received seven Emmy Awards. More recently, he co-directed his first scripted feature, Nyad (2023), which saw both stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster receiving Academy Award nominations. Additional projects include the BAFTA- and DGA-nominated The Rescue (2021), the 2015 Sundance Audience Award-winner Meru, and the upcoming Lost in the Jungle.
E. Chai Vasarhelyi
Chai Vasarhelyi is an Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, who with collaborator Jimmy Chin, received BAFTA and Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for Free Solo (2018). The film also received seven Emmy Awards. In 2023, she co-directed her first scripted feature, Nyad, for which stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster garnered Academy Award nominations. More recently, Vasarhelyi received a Peabody and a News & Documentary Emmy Award for co-directing and producing the series Photographer (2024). Among her other projects are the BAFTA- and DGA-nominated The Rescue (2021), Sundance Audience Award-winner Meru (2015), and the series Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin (2022).
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