Netflix has just released the atmospheric teaser trailer for their upcoming limited series about famed Brazilian Formula 1 racer Ayrton Senna. The teaser is a meditative sequence where Senna achieves his historic victory at 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. Senna is played by Gabriel Leone and we see possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Ayrton to this point in his career in addition to some iconic characters who were a part of his life that year, including Xuxa (Pâmela Tomé), Alain Prost (Matt Mella) and the McLaren team principal, Ron Dennis (Patrick Kennedy) and Galvão Bueno (Gabriel Louchard).
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Over the course of six episodes, Senna will showcase, for the first time, Ayrton’s journey through triumph, disappointment, joy, and sorrow, unveiling his personality and personal relationships. The fictional series starts with the genesis of the three-time Formula 1 champion’s motor racing career,...
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Over the course of six episodes, Senna will showcase, for the first time, Ayrton’s journey through triumph, disappointment, joy, and sorrow, unveiling his personality and personal relationships. The fictional series starts with the genesis of the three-time Formula 1 champion’s motor racing career,...
- 4/30/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
In this first teaser video for Senna, the limited series premiering in late 2024, we see the recreation of Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna’s historic victory, including the narration of Galvão Bueno, at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear and also marking the first time he won in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
We also see possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Ayrton, played by Gabriel Leone, to this point in his career in addition to some iconic characters who were a part of his life that year, including Xuxa (Pâmela Tomé), Alain Prost (Matt Mella) and the McLaren team principal, Ron Dennis (Patrick Kennedy), and Galvão Bueno (Gabriel Louchard).
For the first time, Senna will showcase Ayrton’s journey through triumph, disappointment, joy, and sorrow over the course of six episodes,...
We also see possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Ayrton, played by Gabriel Leone, to this point in his career in addition to some iconic characters who were a part of his life that year, including Xuxa (Pâmela Tomé), Alain Prost (Matt Mella) and the McLaren team principal, Ron Dennis (Patrick Kennedy), and Galvão Bueno (Gabriel Louchard).
For the first time, Senna will showcase Ayrton’s journey through triumph, disappointment, joy, and sorrow over the course of six episodes,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Netflix’s Senna biopic has moved up the gears with a first teaser.
Premiering later this year, the show stars Gabriel Leone as the eponymous driver. The trailer recreates his historic victory at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear and also marking the first time he won in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
The teaser also displays possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Senna to where he had got to in his career before he tragically died in 1994. The six-parter starts with the genesis of the three-time F1 champion’s motor racing career, when he moves to England to compete in Formula Ford, and runs until his tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna also stars The Gentlemen’s Kaya Scodelario, whose mother is Brazillian, fresh off...
Premiering later this year, the show stars Gabriel Leone as the eponymous driver. The trailer recreates his historic victory at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear and also marking the first time he won in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
The teaser also displays possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Senna to where he had got to in his career before he tragically died in 1994. The six-parter starts with the genesis of the three-time F1 champion’s motor racing career, when he moves to England to compete in Formula Ford, and runs until his tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna also stars The Gentlemen’s Kaya Scodelario, whose mother is Brazillian, fresh off...
- 4/30/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
As Brazil emerges from its shoot shutdown, the magnitude of its biggest production, Netflix fiction miniseries “Senna,” about Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna, is rapidly becoming clearer.
The series, now in development, ticks multiple boxes for both Netflix and its producer, São Paulo-based Gullane.
“Language is no longer a barrier, only ambition and quality are barriers,” Francisco Ramos, Netflix VP of Spanish-language Originals in Latin America, said as a keynote at September’s San Sebastian Festival.
“Senna” certainly has ambition. It will be “the first Netflix title from Brazil conceived from its very inception as a global series,” “Senna” producer Fabiano Gullane told Variety during Ventana Sur.
In order for a Netflix title to “be successful abroad, it first has to have an impact in its own country,” Ramos also observed.
Senna can expect to have a huge impact n Brazil. For Gullane, “Other Formula One World Champions were heroes of their sport,...
The series, now in development, ticks multiple boxes for both Netflix and its producer, São Paulo-based Gullane.
“Language is no longer a barrier, only ambition and quality are barriers,” Francisco Ramos, Netflix VP of Spanish-language Originals in Latin America, said as a keynote at September’s San Sebastian Festival.
“Senna” certainly has ambition. It will be “the first Netflix title from Brazil conceived from its very inception as a global series,” “Senna” producer Fabiano Gullane told Variety during Ventana Sur.
In order for a Netflix title to “be successful abroad, it first has to have an impact in its own country,” Ramos also observed.
Senna can expect to have a huge impact n Brazil. For Gullane, “Other Formula One World Champions were heroes of their sport,...
- 12/4/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of motorsports generally get a bad rap, but not all racing is epitomized by the generic dim-witted redneck Nascar fan, blasting country music and pounding cases of Bud Light. Formula One (F1), the globe-trotting super sport of high speed open-wheel road racing, has a very different audience, and though F1 has never really managed to grasp a major American audience, it is by far the most popular racing series on the planet. If you happen to be a fan of the technical brilliance and utter insanity of F1 racing, you no doubt know the name Ayrton Senna. If not, Asif Kapadia’s absolutely stunning documentary constructed solely of archival footage, Senna, serves not only as an engrossing introduction to the Brazilian driver who is considered by many to be the best to ever live, but triumphs in constructing a masterful rise and fall, complete with heroes and villains, and...
- 7/31/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – Here’s one of the smartest documentaries to come around in a good long while. Director Asif Kapadia tackles subject matter that begs to be told with immediacy and he ends up succeeding every step of the way. His masterstroke in the Sundance prize-winner, “Senna,” is at once simple and ingenious: the entire picture is told purely through archival footage, allowing the subjects to tell their own story as it unfolded.
This is not a picture delivered in the gauze of sentimental nostalgia. It has the rip-roaring pace and mounting suspense of an A-grade Hollywood thriller, and deserves to be discovered by a wide audience in its DVD release. Despite the fact that I personally have no interest in race car driving, I was riveted by every frame of this heartfelt tribute to the Brazilian Formula One racer, Ayrton Senna, considered by many to be the greatest driver of all time.
This is not a picture delivered in the gauze of sentimental nostalgia. It has the rip-roaring pace and mounting suspense of an A-grade Hollywood thriller, and deserves to be discovered by a wide audience in its DVD release. Despite the fact that I personally have no interest in race car driving, I was riveted by every frame of this heartfelt tribute to the Brazilian Formula One racer, Ayrton Senna, considered by many to be the greatest driver of all time.
- 3/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There’s the distinct feeling as 2011 has now come and gone that it will not be remembered among the stronger years of recent cinema; countless prestige pics (The Iron Lady, J. Edgar, The Lady) proved disappointing, more so than is regularly anticipated, while blockbuster fare, though solid, didn’t deliver any Inception or Toy Story 3-caliber outings. There were, however, some wonderful genre films populating the later months of the year, including peculiarly tantalising sci-fi and sports films, as well as the British horror scene’s most diverting entry in years. Add to that some profound meditations on parenting, the film industry, memory, addiction, animal cruelty and domestic abuse, and you have what is nevertheless as diverse a year as any, even if it possibly lacked that one affirmative zeitgeist film that is going to be talked about not only in art house circles but in pub discussions for years to come.
- 1/25/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Chicago – In our latest documentary edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 3 prize packs up for grabs for “Senna” about Brazilian Formula One race car champion Ayrton Senna! The film won the 2011 Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary. Each “Senna” prize pack from HollywoodChicago.com includes a windbreaker and poster from the film.
“Senna” prizes offered in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup.
“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.
Theatrical Release Dates
Aug. 12, 2011: New York and Los Angeles Aug. 19, 2011: Austin, Berkley, Cambridge, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Aug. 26, 2011: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Palm Springs, Palo Alto, Portland, San Diego and Seattle Sept.
“Senna” prizes offered in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup.
“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.
Theatrical Release Dates
Aug. 12, 2011: New York and Los Angeles Aug. 19, 2011: Austin, Berkley, Cambridge, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Aug. 26, 2011: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Palm Springs, Palo Alto, Portland, San Diego and Seattle Sept.
- 8/16/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In our latest documentary edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Senna” about Brazilian Formula One race car champion Ayrton Senna! The film won the 2011 Sundance Film Festival award for best documentary.
“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.
The film opens on Aug. 19, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Senna” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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“Senna” features appearances by Ayrton Senna (archival footage), Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Jean-Marie Balestre from director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey.
The film opens on Aug. 19, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Senna” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- 8/11/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Today, we're bringing you an exclusive clip from Asif Kapadia's Senna --- a docu film chock-full of epitasis and mutiple denouements, and surprisingly it isn't the stock footage of the high end drama that took place on the race track that will rouse cinephiles and F1 fans alike, but rather, the never before seen, behind-the-scenes footage of closed door, pre-race briefings that demonstrate the fears and safety concerns of what were the world's best drivers, and the ineptitudes of the governing body of the F1 lead by President (worth noting Frenchmen) Jean-Marie Balestre. I caught one of the year's best docs in Park City earlier this year, and this choice clip underlines how Senna's teammate, and rival Alain Prost's deliberate faux-pas from the previous year sort of implodes one year to the date later when the 1990 Championship is on the line, and a possible similar outcome appears imminent.
- 8/8/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Manish Pandey
Featuring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jean-Marie Balestre
When setting out to make “Senna,” his documentary about the namesake race-car driver, director Asif Kapadia scored a major coup when he gained access to the entire Formula One archive. The footage that Kapadia unearthed turned out to be a gold mine, revealing Ayrton Senna’s entire professional career, including races, meetings, press conferences and interviews (with Senna, his peers and closest associates). Together with home movies and broadcast excerpts from Brazil (Senna’s home country), Kapadia and his team have managed to create an astonishing tribute to the driver considered a national hero in Brazil, comprised entirely of already-existing footage. Indeed, “Senna” stands as a triumph of Kapadia...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Manish Pandey
Featuring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jean-Marie Balestre
When setting out to make “Senna,” his documentary about the namesake race-car driver, director Asif Kapadia scored a major coup when he gained access to the entire Formula One archive. The footage that Kapadia unearthed turned out to be a gold mine, revealing Ayrton Senna’s entire professional career, including races, meetings, press conferences and interviews (with Senna, his peers and closest associates). Together with home movies and broadcast excerpts from Brazil (Senna’s home country), Kapadia and his team have managed to create an astonishing tribute to the driver considered a national hero in Brazil, comprised entirely of already-existing footage. Indeed, “Senna” stands as a triumph of Kapadia...
- 6/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Manish Pandey
Featuring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jean-Marie Balestre
When setting out to make “Senna,” his documentary about the namesake race-car driver, director Asif Kapadia scored a major coup when he gained access to the entire Formula One archive. The footage that Kapadia unearthed turned out to be a gold mine, revealing Ayrton Senna’s entire professional career, including races, meetings, press conferences and interviews (with Senna, his peers and closest associates). Together with home movies and broadcast excerpts from Brazil (Senna’s home country), Kapadia and his team have managed to create an astonishing tribute to the driver considered a national hero in Brazil, comprised entirely of already-existing footage. Indeed, “Senna” stands as a triumph of Kapadia...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Asif Kapadia
Written by: Manish Pandey
Featuring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jean-Marie Balestre
When setting out to make “Senna,” his documentary about the namesake race-car driver, director Asif Kapadia scored a major coup when he gained access to the entire Formula One archive. The footage that Kapadia unearthed turned out to be a gold mine, revealing Ayrton Senna’s entire professional career, including races, meetings, press conferences and interviews (with Senna, his peers and closest associates). Together with home movies and broadcast excerpts from Brazil (Senna’s home country), Kapadia and his team have managed to create an astonishing tribute to the driver considered a national hero in Brazil, comprised entirely of already-existing footage. Indeed, “Senna” stands as a triumph of Kapadia...
- 6/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Ayrton Senna was his generation's best Grand Prix driver. This viscerally exciting documentary does him justice
Movies about motor sports have invariably arisen out of the personal enthusiasms of the actors or directors that made them. Steve McQueen, for instance, was the co-producer and star of Le Mans and did much of his own driving. Paul Newman did much of the same in Winning, his film about a racer's dream to win the Indianapolis 500. John Frankenheimer, who directed Grand Prix, the most expensive and ambitious of motor racing films, famously drove his guest Bobby Kennedy to the Ambassador Hotel the evening the senator was assassinated. He was driving so fast that Kennedy remarked: "Take it easy, John. Life is too short."
For Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One champion, life was indeed too short. He died, aged 34, after a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, and both the producer,...
Movies about motor sports have invariably arisen out of the personal enthusiasms of the actors or directors that made them. Steve McQueen, for instance, was the co-producer and star of Le Mans and did much of his own driving. Paul Newman did much of the same in Winning, his film about a racer's dream to win the Indianapolis 500. John Frankenheimer, who directed Grand Prix, the most expensive and ambitious of motor racing films, famously drove his guest Bobby Kennedy to the Ambassador Hotel the evening the senator was assassinated. He was driving so fast that Kennedy remarked: "Take it easy, John. Life is too short."
For Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One champion, life was indeed too short. He died, aged 34, after a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, and both the producer,...
- 6/4/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
A documentary charting the story of a Formula 1 legend, Senna is unmissable cinema, argues Seb...
I've long been one of those people who think that the life of Ayrton Senna would make for a fantastic biopic. I'd love to see a proper Hollywood blockbuster about Formula One (and no, not Driven). What better story is there than the fascinating, tragic, almost unreal tale of the life and death of arguably the greatest, certainly the most charismatic racing driver there's ever been?
Writer Manish Pandey and director Asif Kapadia evidently felt much the same way as me about the cinematic possibilities of Senna's life story. But thankfully, they had a much better way of going about telling it. Because Senna is a remarkable piece of work, and despite being a documentary, it's instantly and obviously a more compelling narrative than any dramatisation could possibly have been.
That's not to say it isn't cinematic,...
I've long been one of those people who think that the life of Ayrton Senna would make for a fantastic biopic. I'd love to see a proper Hollywood blockbuster about Formula One (and no, not Driven). What better story is there than the fascinating, tragic, almost unreal tale of the life and death of arguably the greatest, certainly the most charismatic racing driver there's ever been?
Writer Manish Pandey and director Asif Kapadia evidently felt much the same way as me about the cinematic possibilities of Senna's life story. But thankfully, they had a much better way of going about telling it. Because Senna is a remarkable piece of work, and despite being a documentary, it's instantly and obviously a more compelling narrative than any dramatisation could possibly have been.
That's not to say it isn't cinematic,...
- 6/2/2011
- Den of Geek
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