Asif Kapadia has actually been touched by Amazon’s Prime Video to guide an attribute docudrama on Roger Federer.
The Amy and Senna helmer and co-director Joe Sabia will certainly record Federer with the last 12 days of his well known professional tennis profession. The docudrama will solely stream on Prime Video in greater than 240 nations and regions worldwide.
The attribute movie is a home video Federer never ever planned for public watching, as he bids farewell to the video game and his followers, according to a summary. The doc will certainly consist of meetings with tennis opponents and buddies, consisting of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray, with Federer supplying accessibility to his sporting activities partnerships.
“Initially, the idea was to capture the final moments of my professional tennis career so that I could have it later on to show my family and friends,” Federer stated in a declaration. In 2022, Federer revealed he was relinquishing expert tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Conquest titles over 20 years.
“During my career, I tended to shy away from having cameras around me and my family, especially during important moments. But I didn’t see the harm in shooting this as it was never intended for the public,” the tennis symbol included.
Kapadia is best understood for docudramas like Amy, concerning the late Amy Winehouse, Senna and Diego Maradona. His launching fiction attribute, The Warrior, starred the late Irrfan Khan. Kapadia was additionally the collection director and exec manufacturer on the Apple television+ collection 1971: The Year That Songs Changed Whatever.
The untitled Roger Federer docudrama is a Lafcadia Productions manufacturing. The movie is created by Kapadia and George Chignell.
