Senna documentary debuts at Sundance — Autoblog

When Ayrton Senna died at 34, he left a gaping hole in a sport that's cherished by tens of millions around the world. Seventeen years later, the documentary about his life entitled "Senna" has finally been shown to crowds at the Sundance Film Festival after a long gestation period, and the early reviews are glowing.

Screenwriter and Executive Producer Manish Pandey shared with the Sundance audience that he already showed the film to Ron Dennis, current chairman of McLaren Automotive and former boss of the successful McLaren Formula One racing team. Dennis is a tough man, known for being emotionless and extremely efficient with his time. However, after watching Senna, Dennis reportedly cried for 10 minutes and then spent the next two hours discussing the most un-tamed racing driver the world has ever known.

With any luck, this documentary's showing at Sundance has already bagged it a distributor for wider release in the U.S.

YouTube - Ayrton Senna - The Movie [International Trailer]

 

I have a good friend who just got back from Sundance.

He is a movie producer of some renown in Hollywood.

He is not a car guy at all and we often have arguments about the sense of paying six figures for a car.

I asked him if - while he was in Park City - he might have heard of a movie about a great Formula 1 race car driver named Ayrton Senna.

His eyes got really big and he said "That was - by far - the best movie at Sundance!"

He could not say enough good things about it. He was positive that it would win some big awards.

Unfortunately, he also said that - as of when he had left - the film had not been picked up by a U.S. distributor.

He felt very confident that it would though.

 

you have no idea how badly i want to see this, its been in the works so long.

glad to hear it was well received dana.

 

I sure hope it gets picked up for N. American distribution, I WANT to see this in a theater. And I sure hope they make DVD's available for those of us that ARE gonna want to own this one.

 

This is such a coincidence!!

My buddy just texted me that Senna just won the WORLD AUDIENCE AWARD DOCUMENTARY!

I guess the awards ceremony is going on as we speak.

Freaky.

 

kismet

 

a bit better trailer if you can ignore the spiders having sex in the subtitles

YouTube - Ayrton Senna: The Movie (Trailer)

 

you know i was reminded of when michael equaled senna's victories & cried in the post race press conference, anybody else remember that? bless mika, ralf was no help, looking at michael as if he'd lost the plot

YouTube - Schumacher cries after equals Ayrton Senna's number of victories.

 

Fingers crossed that this makes it to the US.

F1 needs more character, something that Ayrton had in spades.