\n \u2018Hill\u2019, documenting the life and career of Damon Hill, the former world championship winning F1 driver, was produced by the Sylver Entertainment, based in Christchurch.\n<\/p>\n
\n The film tells the story of the life of Damon Hill, from his early years that saw his father, Graham, a two-time world champion driver himself, die in plane crash in 1975, to his world-famous rivalry with Michael Schumacher that ended with Hill winning the World Championship of Driving in 1996.\n<\/p>\n
\n Victoria Barrell, co-founder and managing director, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky to have the privilege to know him and be allowed to make the film.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Damon Hill won the Formula One World Championship in 1996, following in his father’s footsteps (Image: Sylver Entertainment)\n<\/p>\n
\n The award-winning company, which creates theatrical documentary films among other projects, was co-founded in 2020 by Victoria and Simon Lazenby, the lead presenter for F1 for Sky Sports.\n<\/p>\n
\n Having previously made critically acclaimed documentary films such a \u2018McEnroe\u2019 and \u2018Schmeichel\u2019, Victoria and Simon wanted to tell Hill\u2019s story since the company was first founded.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a story that we just truly believe in, said Victoria.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s probably one of the most dramatic tales in Formula One.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDamon Hill is an extraordinary man and an extraordinary F1 world champion.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n She added Simon\u2019s relationships with many people within the F1 community allowed them the \u201cbring people to the table\u201d to tell Hill\u2019s story.\n<\/p>\n
\n The film has received five stars reviews from the Daily Mail and the Times since its release last week.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been very excited by it,\u201d Victoria said of the reviews and reactions from the film.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019re feeling thrilled.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou\u2019re always thrilled when a film lands well.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe hope people get a lot from it as they watch it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The film is currently available on Sky in the UK and is expected to receive and international release soon.\n<\/p>\n
\n The co-founder said she loved storytelling feels \u201cvery lucky\u201d to do a job she loves and was \u201cdetermined\u201d to tell Hill\u2019s story after growing up watching F1 with her father.\n<\/p>\n
\n The company is pitching its newest production, \u2018Lomu\u2019, a feature length documentary film that tell the story of the late All Blacks rugby sensation, Jonah Lomu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Hill\u2019, documenting the life and career of Damon Hill, the former world championship winning F1 driver, was produced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839197334768672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}