Sally is a 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Cristina Costantini. It explores the life and career of Sally Ride, and her relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy.
Elizabeth Weitzman of TheWrap wrote, "Sally does great justice to an extraordinary astronaut and reluctant icon, someone who broke many barriers and deserves to be celebrated and remembered for who she was in every way. It also, alas, repeats the error made so often by the media of her era, in centering other people's assumptions, and perspectives, over her own."[10]
Caryn James of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "In the richly detailed Sally, Cristina Costantini reveals both personal and professional aspects of Ride's life, showing how they were intertwined. With O'Shaughnessy as the central narrator, the documentary includes eye-opening interviews with family members and former astronauts and archival video of Ride herself, to create an engaging, socially relevant portrait of an American heroine and of the culture."[11]
Relevance
Director Cristina Costantini later said, following US president Donald Trump's cancelling all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, a modern day Affirmative Action program, and aimed to appeal to Liberal voters, intended to help overcome prejudice against people who were LGBTQ, female, and also of darker skin color, that "We made this movie not thinking it was particularly controversial; we had no idea it would be this relevant." Constantini also said, referring to Ride's marriage, "People didn't like women in space, and they especially didn't like single women in space".[12]
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