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Little Monster Films

New York, New York

Little Monster Films is an Academy®, BAFTA®, and multiple Emmy® Award-winning production company founded by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Documentary
LocationNew York, New York
Websitelittlemonsterfilms.com
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Phone(212) 222-2336
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.0IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

12 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars1of1nominations100%
Emmys0of2nominations0%
BAFTAs0of1nominations0%

63 wins from 195 nominations across all awards

Box office
$21m

Combined US gross, 5 of 18 titles

The Rescue poster
Highest rated
The Rescue
2021
8.323,780 votes
Incorruptible poster
Lowest rated
Incorruptible
2015
5.8114 votes
Mostly
documentary, adventure, sport
Active
2003–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Best known for
Free Solo

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 16 of 18 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
33 seasons

2022–2024

Television rating
7.5IMDb

Their films average 8.0, so the television rates 0.4 lower.

Networks
  • National Geographic2
  • HBO1

Across 3 series matched to TMDB, 19 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits18 of 19

15 films · 3 TV titles

Showing 18 of 19 titles on record.

Titles per year18 titles · busiest 2015 with 2

18 titles across 24 years, averaging 0.8 a year. The last five years average 2.0 a year, above their long-run rate. 13 of those 24 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time12 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 8.0200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 8.0 across 3 titles. The 11 titles since 2015 average 8.0, holding at their 8.0 overall. 2 of 12 rated titles sit above their 8.0 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi11
  • Jimmy Chin7
Writers
  • Gabriel Clarke2
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi2
Notable cast
  • Jimmy Chin3
  • Alex Honnold2
Genres
  • Documentary16 of 16
  • Adventure3 of 16
  • Sport3 of 16
  • Action2 of 16
  • History2 of 16

Names appearing on two or more of Little Monster Films’s produced titles, across the 16 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with10 companies

Companies that appear alongside Little Monster Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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