

Storyline: Heroes (2020) A new feature-length film focusing on the lives of five motor racing legends will be unveiled this July, in the week leading up to the British Grand Prix. The film, Heroes, has been written and directed by Manish Pandey, who ten years ago wrote the screenplay for the award-winning Senna.This new movie - commissioned by the Motorsport Network - brings together drivers from F1, sportscars and rallying who tell their stories to each other over an evening in an English stately home.The four racers are two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Häkkinen, former Ferrari grand prix ace Felipe Massa, nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen and World Rally Championship runner-up Michèle Mouton."I wanted to get racers of different ages and disciplines together but in a location that was out of their comfort zone," says Pandey. "When you dig down into these characters, you discover - no matter what their background is - how much they have in common."Though the motor racing disciplines differ, the stories they share across ten chapters in the film are broadly similar: their love of four wheels growing up, their big breaks, successes, failures, personal struggles and life-threatening accidents. Supplementing their narratives is a wealth of archive material, either gleaned from their personal collections or from the extensive library held at Formula 1 TV's headquarters at Biggin Hill.Heroes has unearthed some previously unseen archive from key races such as Jerez 1997 (Mika Häkkinen's first win), Interlagos 2008 (when Felipe Massa lost the world championship) and Monza 2006 (when Michael Schumacher's retirement was announced). Of the 65 minutes of archive in the film, over three quarters of it is from the F1 library."Movie-making is very technical and there is always a formula," Pandey says, explaining the details of production. "There are three acts. After a short setup where you're introduced to the characters, suddenly there is a twist. That sets you up for the next journey in the film before the final act, which is where everything changes."There are techniques you can deploy. However, documentary film-makers have a responsibility when they tell the story of a living or deceased person because it needs to be the truth."The final protagonist in the story is Michael Schumacher, who at some stage in his career has either worked or raced against the other four racers in the film. Häkkinen's first experience of racing Schumacher was at Macau in F3, before those epic Suzuka showdowns in the late '90s and early 2000s. Massa gets his big break as Schumacher's team-mate in 2006 and looked up to him as a father figure.After Tom Kristensen beat Häkkinen in the Formula Nordic A-Class karting championship in 1985, he raced alongside Schumacher in a handful of Formula 3 races - before encountering him again in the annual Race of Champions, an event organised and run by... Michèle Mouton."It became clear with the drivers we had that while they would tell the stories of their lives, they would also be able to shine a little light on different facets of Michael," says Pandey. "All four of them have Michael in common and I wanted him to be the fifth story. In the years since his skiing accident I've begun to appreciate the immensity of what he achieved on the track and the absolute love that surrounded him - especially at Ferrari."
Dennis (2007)
When Dennis, an introvert body builder, invites a local girl out on a date, his mother is hurt and disappointed Despite the pressure she puts on him to cancel the date, Dennis ventures into a night that he will never forget
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016)
Theo and Hugo encounter each others bodies in a sex club They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew
My Comic Shop Country (2019)
My Comic Shop Country is a feature length documentary film exploring the business, fandom, and community of comic book stores across the United States In 2015, New Yorks Alternate Realities closed after 23 years in operation, setti
A Tale of Shemroon (2022)
Iman and his younger brother, Payar, live with their father Thanks to his connections with the citys youth, he starts a business to make some quick profit A new beginning turns into a twisted cycle affecting the familys destiny
Fighting Bill Fargo (1941)
A man faces frontier corruption when he returns home to help his sister run their late fathers newspaper
Stealing Sinatra (2003)
In need of a grubstake, a young man convinces a couple of friends to help him kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr Its a true story
The Hussy (1979)
Misfit Francois kidnaps young Mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents home A strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them
The Black Swan (1942)
An ex pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love hate relationship with an aristocratic woman whos tougher than she seems
Resistance (2015)
80 years ago antibiotics revolutionized medicine Only now are we realizing the potentially catastrophic consequences of these miracle drugs The question is have we reached a point where we must save antibiotics to save ourselves
Kings of Mulberry Street (2019)
What if the only way two young Kwazulu Natal boys can defeat the bullying local crime lord whos threatening their families, is through their belief that one can be a Bollywood hero Feisty TICKY is like a tjara artful dodger cheek
Racer and the Jailbird (2017)
Set against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, a tragic love story between Gigi, a high flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper class roots