The Wind Gods

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The Wind Gods
The Wind Gods film cover.jpg
Film poster
Directed byFritz Mitchell
Produced by David Ellison
Narrated by Jeremy Irons
Music by Pinar Toprak
Production
company
Release date
  • 2011 (2011)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Wind Gods: 33rd America's Cup is a 2011 documentary sailing yacht racing sports film about the 2010 America's Cup (the 33rd Cup) revised in 2013. The film is narrated by Jeremy Irons, directed by Fritz Mitchell, and produced by Skydance Productions. The soundtrack composed by Pinar Toprak won the 2011 IFMCA Best Documentary Score award. The film aired nationally on PBS (the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service) in 2013. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Film

The film The Wind Gods: 33rd America's Cup was produced by David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, and his production company, Skydance Productions. Larry Ellison is the syndicate CEO of Oracle Team USA, the winning team in the 33rd America's Cup (AC33), and chairman and founder of Oracle Corporation, the title sponsor of the winning syndicate. David Ellison collaborated with Julian Guthrie on the film. Guthrie wrote the nonfiction book The Billionaire and the Mechanic about the history of Oracle Team USA. [3] [5] The DVD and advertising campaign were produced by Bean Labs, in conjunction with Mt. Philo Films. [6]

Synopsis

The film profiles Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts, and Ernesto Bertarelli. Coutts is the skipper for Oracle Team USA who was hired away from Bertarelli's Switzerland's Team Alinghi. Bertarelli is the head of the defending champion, the Swiss syndicate Team Alinghi, running the yacht Alinghi 5, while Oracle runs the yacht USA-17. The film proceeds to cover the proceedings of the America's Cup regatta, a championship composed of multiple rounds of racing. [3] [7]

Soundtrack

The Wind Gods
Soundtrack album by
Pinar Toprak
StudioCaldera Records
Genre Film score

A soundtrack album was released, The Wind Gods: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, composed by Pinar Toprak, released by Caldera Records, ID# C6012, containing 19 tracks, 18 music and one commentary. The film score received the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Score in 2011. [1] [8] [2]

Track listing

[8]

TrackTitleLengthNotes
01The Wind Gods2:50
02First Race 18515:52
03Ellison vs. Bertarelli1:06
04The Best Man To Steer The Boat2:04
05Childhood1:52
06We Are The American Team1:02
07There Is No Second Place1:39
08Jimmy And His Father1:04
09The Final Race3:30
10It Was Personal2:07
11The America's Cup is America's Again2:17
12What's At Stake1:05
13The Trophy1:33
14Dreams Are To Pursue1:15
15One Australia1:26
16The 12 Minute Cue12:18
17A Noble Defeat1:26
18Dreams Are To Pursue II2:40
19Audio Commentary by Pinar Toprak2:54Bonus Track

Workography

Awards and honors

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">America's Cup</span> Sailing race trophy

The America's Cup, informally known as the Auld Mug, is a trophy awarded in the sport of sailing. It is the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup. Matches are held several years apart on dates agreed between the defender and the challenger. There is no fixed schedule, but the races have generally been held every three to four years. The most recent America's Cup match took place in March 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Larry Ellison</span> American entrepreneur (born 1944)

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded software company Oracle Corporation. He was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014, and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alinghi</span>

Alinghi, or Alinghi Red Bull Racing because of the sports marketing branding by Red Bull, is the syndicate set up by Ernesto Bertarelli, racing under the colors of the Société Nautique de Genève, to challenge for the America's Cup, as well as other competitions. Bertarelli had raced several smaller yachts named Alinghi previously, but 2003 was his first attempt at the America's Cup. Alinghi challenged for and won the 2003 America's Cup in Auckland New Zealand and successfully defended it at the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia, Spain. Alinghi lost the America's Cup to the Golden Gate Yacht Club and their team BMW Oracle Racing in a Deed of Gift match in Valencia, Spain in February 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oracle Team USA</span> American sailboat racing syndicate

Oracle Team USA is an American yacht racing syndicate initially formed to compete for the 2003 America's Cup. They competed again in the 2007 event before winning the 33rd America's Cup regatta in 2010 – representing the Golden Gate Yacht Club. The team also won the 34th America's Cup in 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Golden Gate Yacht Club</span> American yacht club

The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) is a San Francisco, California, U.S. based yacht club founded in 1939.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell Coutts</span> New Zealand sailor

Sir Russell Coutts is a world champion New Zealand yachtsman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernesto Bertarelli</span> Swiss-Italian billionaire

Ernesto Silvio Maurizio Bertarelli is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist.

Team New Zealand or TNZ is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

Pinar Toprak is a Turkish-American Emmy-nominated composer, conductor and musician, who specializes in creating thematic scores for everything from superhero sagas and blockbuster comedies to TV series and dramas. With her work on Captain Marvel (2019) and Fortnite, Toprak is the first female composer to score both a film and video game with gross revenues of over $1 billion and $5 billion respectively.

David Ellison is an American film producer and actor, son of multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and the founder and CEO of Skydance Media.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2003 America's Cup</span>

The 31st America's Cup was contested between the holder, Team New Zealand, and the winner of the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup, Alinghi.

America's Cup Management was private company formed to oversee the organisation of the 2007 America's Cup, including date, location, media rights, boat design, entry fees and all the key details required to conduct the America's Cup. It was formed by the Alinghi team principal, Ernesto Bertarelli. Alinghi as holders of the America's Cup following their win in the 2003 America's Cup, held the responsibility and benefits of defining the rules and structure for the next event, but much of the work was done in consultation with the Challenger of Record—the Golden Gate Yacht Club and its representative BMW Oracle Racing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2010 America's Cup</span>

The 33rd America's Cup between Société Nautique de Genève defending with team Alinghi against Golden Gate Yacht Club, and their racing team BMW Oracle Racing was the subject of extensive court action and litigation, surpassing in acrimony even the controversial 1988 America's Cup. Since the two parties were unable to agree otherwise, the match took place as a one-on-one deed of gift match in gigantic, specialized multi-hull racing yachts with no other clubs or teams participating. The Golden Gate Yacht Club swept the two races as their yacht USA 17 powered by a rigid wing-sail proved to be significantly faster than Société Nautique de Genève's yacht Alinghi 5. The litigation leading up to the match included which club would be the challenger, the dates and venue for the regattas, certain rules governing the regattas, and the construction of the boats.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hans-Peter Steinacher</span> Sailor from Austria

Hans-Peter Steinacher is an Austrian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the Tornado class with Roman Hagara at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They won the gold medal again at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

<i>USA 17</i> Racing trimaran

USA-17 is a sloop rigged racing trimaran built by the American sailing team BMW Oracle Racing to challenge for the 2010 America's Cup. Designed by VPLP Yacht Design with consultation from Franck Cammas and his Groupama multi-hull sailing team, BOR90 is very light for her size being constructed almost entirely out of carbon fiber and epoxy resin, and exhibits very high performance being able to sail at 2.0 to 2.5 times the true wind speed. From the actual performance of the boat during the 2010 America's Cup races, it can be seen that she could achieve a velocity made good upwind of over twice the wind speed and downwind of over 2.5 times the wind speed. She can apparently sail at 20 degrees off the apparent wind. The boat sails so fast downwind that the apparent wind she generates is only 5-6 degrees different from that when she is racing upwind; that is, the boat is always sailing upwind with respect to the apparent wind. An explanation of this phenomenon can be found in the article on sailing faster than the wind.

<i>Alinghi 5</i>

Alinghi 5 is a 90 ft (27 m) (LWL), 90 ft (27 m) beam sloop-rigged catamaran built by Alinghi for the 33rd America's Cup.

John Paul Kostecki is an American competitive sailor of Polish descent. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started his sailing career in the San Francisco Bay, California.

Stuart Pollard is an Australian sailor and property developer at CHAPTER+CO. Stuart has won National, European and World Sailing Championships.

Grant Simmer is an Australian sailor and yacht designer who has competed in multiple America's Cups.

<i>The Billionaire and the Mechanic</i>

The Billionaire and the Mechanic is a bestselling non-fiction book by Julian Guthrie about Oracle Team USA's quest to win the America's Cup, the oldest trophy in sport. The billionaire in question is Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation, and the car mechanic in question is Norbert Bajurin, the Commodore of the Golden Gate Yacht Club.

References

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  2. 1 2 James Southall (5 January 2016). "The Wind Gods". Movie Wave. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Patrick Hoge (9 May 2013). "Larry Ellison's private America's Cup party". San Francisco Business Times. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Wind Gods". PBS Northern California KQED 9. 2013.
  5. ↑ Julie Bort (10 May 2013). "Larry Ellison Graciously Stopped A Journalist From Being Tossed Out Of His Private Party". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Wind Gods". Bean Labs. 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
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  8. 1 2 "The Wind Gods". Caldera Records. 2014. Archived from the original on 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

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