Oscar winner Free Solo to air on NatGeo in Middle East
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 26 February 2019

Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, co-produced by Abu Dhabi’s Image Nation, will be aired on National Geographic channels in the Middle East from April.

Free Solo won best documentary (feature) at Los Angeles’ Academy Awards on Sunday (24 February).

It is the latest accolade for the documentary which has already bagged the BAFTA for best documentary, three Cinema Eye Honors and three Critics Choice documentary awards, Cinema Audio Society award and ACE editor’s guild awards.

Free Solo is a portrait of the free soloist climber Honnold as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream - climbing the 3,200-foot El Capitan rock in Yosemite National Park, without a rope.

“We are very excited to be bringing National Geographic’s award-winning Free Solo to Arab audiences, fully dubbed in Arabic, and airing it across the Middle East on National Geographic Abu Dhabi alongside the English version on National Geographic,” said Sanjay Raina, general manager and senior vice president, Fox Networks Group.

“We are also proud to have partnered with Image Nation, an Abu Dhabi based, global company to produce a visual masterpiece that has delighted and inspired so many people around the world,” Raina added.

Free Solo was made by documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin.