S11 Ep70: Kilometre 0 – Shooting the Tour: Enter the Slipstream

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Kilometre 0, we speak to three filmmakers who had the tricky task of making a film during the 2020 'Covid' Tour de France.

The result is Enter the Slipstream, which debuts on US streaming service Peacock, part of NBC Sports, tomorrow (Saturday, July 1).

Lionel Birnie spoke to director Ted Youngs, producer Matt Rogers and story producer Alexis Steinman about the filmmaking process, how Covid changed the story and how Enter the Slipstream is the ultimate tale of perseverance for the riders, the EF Pro Cycling team and the filmmakers themselves.

Kilometre 0 at the 2023 Tour de France will be for Friends of the Podcast subscribers. The next episode will be Laura Meseguer's interview with Joseba Beloki, the Basque rider who finished on the podium at the Tour de France three times and crashed in spectacular fashion on the run-in to Gap on Bastille Day during the 2003 Tour. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to Kilometer Zero by the Cycling Podcast.
0:25.0	Making a film about cycling ought to be easy.
0:28.0	After all the material is all right there waiting to be captured by the camera.
0:32.0	Dramatic backdrops, beautiful scenery, speed and danger,
0:36.0	tales of triumph and disaster all served up daily for three weeks.
0:40.0	But it's often more difficult than that.
0:42.0	The visceral excitement is obvious, but as we reflected after watching the Netflix series
0:47.0	unchanged, the complexity and nuance of the sport in its tactics can be harder to convey.
0:54.0	What about making a film as the Tour de France rides through a global pandemic?
0:58.0	Cycling is a sport of heartbreak, even if you're a team that wins a lot.
1:04.0	You still lose more.
1:06.0	This is a sport about perseverance no matter what.
1:10.0	We are the longest running professional cycling team the United States has ever had.
1:16.0	It doesn't matter how much money a team has any one year it could all go away.
1:21.0	Can this team win the Tour de France?
1:24.0	This episode of Kilometer Zero is called Shooting the Tour.
1:27.0	It's about the making of a film called Enter the Slipstream,
1:30.0	a 90 minute documentary following EF Pro Cycling during the 2020 Tour de France.
1:35.0	And it gets its US streaming debut on Saturday July 1st to coincide with the start of this year's race.
1:42.0	This is a big, big crash this time.
1:45.0	You know going into the race is something unwanted will happen.
1:51.0	You're going to get this day behind us.
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