EXCLUSIVE: Former Method One champ Damon Hill is the topic of a brand new documentary from Alex Holmes, director of BAFTA-nominated doc biopic Maiden.

The function will discover the story of how Damon Hill overcame the tragic dying of his father, Method One icon Graham Hill, and set himself the problem of turning into world champion in one of many world’s quickest and most harmful sports activities. It can chart a son’s life-long search to know his father set towards the backdrop of two contrasting eras of the game, and the way Damon wrestled together with his father’s legacy.

With the assist of Damon Hill, and the Hill Property, the filmmakers will use Hill’s intimate household archive in addition to archives that includes the glamorous however extremely harmful period of Nineteen Sixties motorsport and the extraordinary on observe rivalries of Nineteen Nineties Method One icons Schumacher, Senna and Prost.

Manufacturing is because of begin later this 12 months. Contributors will embody, amongst others, Bernie Ecclestone, Gerhard Berger and David Coulthard.

Unbiased Leisure, the newly rebranded title for Luc Roeg’s (We Want To Discuss About Kevin) Unbiased Movie Firm, is launching gross sales on the undertaking forward of the digital Cannes market.

Producers are Simon Lazenby, lead presenter of Sky Sports activities’ Method One protection, and Victoria Barrell (Bobby Robson: Extra Than A Supervisor) each of Sylver Leisure. Luc Roeg and Cora Palfrey of Unbiased Leisure are govt producers.

Damon Hill mentioned: “I’m excited that my intimate story exploring my deep reference to my father and the sturdy parallels in our racing careers can be delivered to the display screen by distinctive filmmaker Alex Holmes.”

Director Holmes added: “This documentary can have all of the richness of a dramatic function. It has the weather of a basic story, an orphaned little one who’s impoverished and missed following the dying of his father, however who fights his strategy to declare the crown. It’s filled with superb characters. Graham Hill was a titan of the game and Damon drove in an age of titans together with Prost, Schumacher and Senna. The story can be instructed by those certified to inform it, those that have been there. Those that lived it. And on the coronary heart of the movie, our hero, Damon, a (sports activities)man of uncommon compassion and articulacy who combines the power to relive the second for us, to put himself again within the warmth of the motion.”

Holmes’ well-received 2018 movie Maiden, picked up by Sony Classics for the U.S, instructed the story of Tracy Edwards, the 24-year-old cook dinner on constitution boats, who turned the skipper of the primary ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Around the World Race in 1989.