Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin ('Free Solo') direct their first narrative feature, about Diana Nyad's history-making swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64.
, also has its world premiere at Telluride this year.also investigates an obsessive athlete: marathon swimmer and journalist Diana Nyad, who resolved to swim from Cuba to Florida, a 110-mile journey, when she was over 60 years old.
The film has already stirred a measure of controversy, with some other athletes and sports commentators critical of some of the exaggerations that Nyad had trumpeted during the course of her long career. But it is to the credit of the filmmakers that even though they want to celebrate Nyad’s achievements, they do not shy away from dramatizing her selfishness and combative personality.
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