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Challengers for Now

Challengers for Now

2020•5m•Documentary
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A challenge without comparison, the oldest trophy in the sporting world. 1000 days, 100 professionals, 1 obsession: winning the America's Cup and win for Italy.

Tobia Passigato · Screenplay

Tobia Passigato · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime5m
LanguageIT
First Air DateJun 9, 2020

Episodes

Episode 1 - Chapter OneE15m

Chapter One

What does it take to win the America's Cup? You need a boat, a team, and a lot of willpower. It's this need to win that pushes a team to fight all the way to the end. The America's Cup is a challenge against oneself.

Jun 9, 2020

Episode 2 - Chapter TwoE25m

Chapter Two

How do you build a boat that flies? Luna Rossa is an amazing technological object. Not only is it a boat, it is an ongoing challenge in constant evolution. Sailing on her, with her, is a unique feeling, it's almost like flying.

Jun 9, 2020

Episode 3 - Chapter ThreeE35m

Chapter Three

Designing a new class means experimenting, pushing limits to the maximum, until you reach the breaking point. But only when you know how far you can push can you understand from where to start again.

Jun 9, 2020

Episode 4 - Chapter FourE45m

Chapter Four

In an America's Cup time is the most precious commodity, where you have almost no margin for error. Time is also your worst enemy; the team works relentlessly to optimize every minute it has to be back on the water as quickly as possible.

Jun 9, 2020

Episode 5 - Chapter FiveE55m

Chapter Five

At the Cagliari headquarters after the lockdown activities have resumed and training sessions revved up. Mastering a machine as complex as an AC75 requires many hours on the water and on the simulator to learn how to control the unpredictable.

Nov 5, 2020

Episode 6 - Chapter SixE65m

Chapter Six

Everyone has a challenge to win. But only as a team can one achieve great accomplishments. A group of over one hundred people, by collaboration and sharing, turns into a close-knit and motivated team.

Nov 5, 2020

Episode 7 - Chapter SevenE75m

Chapter Seven

Details are crucial and make the difference. Infinitesimal grams are stripped off the hull to gain fractions of knot-speed on the water: races are won also thanks to these little numbers.

Nov 5, 2020

Episode 8 - Chapter EightE85m

Chapter Eight

The team is getting ready to leave Cagliari and move to Auckland. A complex logistic operation which also includes the load of the hull on an Antonov aircraft. The countdown to the first race has begun.

Nov 5, 2020

Actors

Davide Tagliapietra

Davide Tagliapietra

Himself

Keith Sexton

Keith Sexton

Himself

Max Sirena

Max Sirena

Himself

Shannon Falcone

Shannon Falcone

Himself

Gilberto Nobili

Gilberto Nobili

Himself

Romano Battisti

Romano Battisti

Himself

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