Love+War

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 96 min

Synopisis

Love+War chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario’s ascent in the male-dominated world of conflict photography. But her work is dangerous. She’s been kidnapped twice while on assignment  in war zones — a cost she must wrestle with each time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on assignment. Behind the camera, Addario is torn between her unwavering commitment to the essential work of journalism and the powerful, competing demands of motherhood, grappling with what it truly means to follow your calling when it threatens everything you love.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Chai Vasarhelyi (DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER)
Chai Vasarhelyi is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker best known for co-directing Free Solo, which earned an Oscar, BAFTA, and seven Emmys. She went on to co-direct The Rescue and Return to Space, as well as the Netflix feature Nyad, which earned Oscar nominations for Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. Her work spans acclaimed series like Photographer and Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin, and she has premiered films at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Telluride. With two new National Geographic documentaries debuting in 2025, she continues to be recognized as one of the most impactful storytellers in nonfiction film.

Jimmy Chin (DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER)
Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker, celebrated National Geographic photographer, and professional climber and skier. Alongside Chai Vasarhelyi, he co-directed Free Solo, winner of the Oscar, BAFTA, and seven Emmys, and later co-directed Nyad and The Rescue. His climbing feats include skiing from the summit of Mount Everest and the first ascent of Mount Meru’s Shark’s Fin, captured in the Sundance-winning documentary Meru. With upcoming National Geographic films Love+War and Lost in the Jungle, Chin continues to merge adventure with powerful storytelling.