Elizabeth “Chai” Vasarhelyl’s films as a director include Meru (Showtime, Universal
Pictures; 2015), winner of the “Audience Award, U.S. Documentary” at the 2015
Sundance Film Festival; Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (Oscilloscope, 2009),
which premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals; A Normal Life (Tribeca Film
Festival, Best Documentary, 2003); and Touba (SXSW, Special Jury Prize Best
Cinematography, 2013). Vasarhelyi has participated in the Good Pitch and received
grants from the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
Bertha Britdoc, the William and Mary Greve Foundation and the National Endowment
of the Arts. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and
lives between New York City and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.