ABOUT

  • Felipe Nasr is no stranger to the podium. The Brazilian ace has logged seasons in Formula 1, captured the IMSA Drivers’ Championship three times, and claimed victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona on three separate occasions. Yet one goal still burns brightest: conquering the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans—the crown jewel many regard as motorsport’s most coveted prize. 

    For 2025, Nasr joins Porsche Motorsport’s Hypercar program, piloting their cutting-edge hybrid prototype that has already proven capable of toppling the once-invincible Toyota and Ferrari squads. In Free Practice, Felipe clocked the fastest lap of the entire field, signaling Porsche’s intent. But in a cruel twist of fate, a mechanical issue during qualifying relegated his car to 20th on the grid—the very back of the class he intended to win.

    To keep his Le Mans dream alive, Nasr must launch an audacious charge from the drop of the green flag, clawing back more than twenty positions and pushing both machine and mind past the absolute limit. 2DIE4 captures every heartbeat of that high-wire quest.

  • From day one, our mission was crystal clear: capture the relentless will and heart of a driver determined to conquer the world’s most unforgiving race—the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Drawing inspiration from the taut, immersive storytelling of Denis Villeneuve and Christopher Nolan, we set out to craft something far richer than a conventional motorsport film. 2DIE4 is an adrenaline-charged, psychologically layered journey that plunges viewers directly into the driver’s seat—and the driver’s mind—as his dream teeters on the edge of disaster.

    As the film industry pivots toward authenticity and away from CGI spectacle, our team leans in. Like Chris Nolan, an inspiration of ours, we champion real-world action, practical effects, and consequences that cannot be undone in post. Our gamble: to film an unfolding story with no script and no guaranteed ending, trusting those real-time decisions—and their very real repercussions—will yield drama no storyboard could match.

    As technologists and cinephiles, we tried to push far beyond our narrative ambition and are grateful for our collaboration with Panavision, with whom we developed custom solutions for the IMAX format. Shot entirely with the discipline and visual language of a narrative feature, 2DIE4 forgoes talking-head interviews and exposition. Every frame is experiential: pure dialogue, pure action, pure urgency. The result we believe is a genre-defying fusion of documentary truth and cinematic intensity—an unfiltered look at ambition, risk, and the razor-thin line between triumph and catastrophe.

  • Brazilian brothers Salomão and André Abdala have been telling stories through a lens since childhood, captivated by every facet of moviemaking. Their journey accelerated in 2013 when they won a GoPro—then their dream camera—and began crafting high-energy action shorts that showcased an instinct for visceral, close-up spectacle.

    A no-fee invitation to shoot a 2018 Superbike race proved pivotal: the viral film they delivered caught Honda Racing’s attention, and within three months the brothers were producing all of Honda’s motorsport content. Abdala Brothers Studios was born.

    Now 28 and 26, the duo’s reel includes milestone campaigns: Porsche’s first Brazilian commercial, Leticia Bufoni’s headline-making Red Bull stunt, and a Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 piece featuring Lewis Hamilton. Their work has earned a Webby Award (for a Red Bull project filmed in the Amazon) and an International Motor Film Award (for their Porsche film with Patrick Dempsey).

    Yet advertising was never the destination—it was the training ground. Like their inspiration David Fincher, the brothers leveraged big-budget sets to refine their craft while quietly developing a signature narrative project. That project is 2DIE4 —the Abdala Brothers’ debut feature and cinematic calling card.

  • Born 21 August 1992 in Brasília, Felipe Nasr has built a résumé that spans the pinnacles of open-wheel and endurance racing. A prodigy in karts, Nasr leapt to Europe in 2009 and claimed the Formula BMW Europe crown in his rookie season—an honor previously held by Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel. Two years later he secured the British Formula 3 Championship before advancing through Formula 2 and into the sport’s ultimate arena: Formula One.

    Formula One

    Nasr’s F1 debut with Sauber in 2015 was nothing short of electrifying. He finished fifth in his very first Grand Prix—out-scoring fellow newcomers Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz—and amassed 27 points that year for a team mired at the back of the grid. A clutch points haul at the rain-soaked 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix kept Sauber afloat financially, yet shifting sponsorship priorities curtailed his Formula One tenure after just two seasons.


    Endurance Racing and Porsche

    Reinventing himself in sports cars, Nasr joined Porsche Motorsport in 2020 and helped develop the cutting-edge 963 Hypercar designed to reclaim Le Mans glory. He has since captured the 24 Hours of Daytona three times—including a triumphant 2025 win—the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, and three IMSA Driver Championships.

    The Quest Ahead

    With victories across every major endurance stage except one, Nasr’s singular objective is clear: conquer the 24 Hours of Le Mans and etch his name among the legends of the sport. 2DIE4 follows that pursuit at full throttle, revealing the talent, tenacity, and tactical brilliance of a driver on the cusp of greatness.

  • The filmmakers wanted the cinematic quality of a feature film applied to a real-life event, even if the crew was just eight people strong.

    To make this possible, Salomão Abdala reached out to Panavision to develop a custom, lightweight camera package: 8K cinema bodies capable of high-speed shooting, equipped with Vista Vision sensors. They engineered rigs that enabled solo operation of a full cinema camera, complete with focus pulling, ND filters, and a reference monitor. While still keeping it light enough for handheld shooting.


    The film was also shot using the legendary System 65—a lens set so rare that only two exist in the world. These are the same lenses Chris Nolan used in Oppenheimer, designed for large-format sensors and known for delivering the depth and cinematic texture that ultimately defined the visual identity of this film. 


    Their proprietary technique, dubbed “Expanded Anamorphic,” enables anamorphic lenses to be used on IMAX’s towering aspect ratio, a feat never before achieved in an IMAX film.

     

    “I think you guys just invented a new genre,”

    — Dan Sasaki, Panavision

  • 2DIE4 makes history as the first Latin American film to debut in IMAX, and establishes its directors, brothers Salomão Abdala (28) and André Abdala (26), as the youngest filmmakers ever to direct a feature conceived for IMAX — surpassing the previous benchmark set by Ryan Coogler, who was 30 at the time of Black Panther, and marking the first IMAX release by Brazilian directors.

    From its inception, 2DIE4 was conceived as an IMAX film. Not adapted for the format but designed expressly for it. For the Abdala brothers — lifelong racing fans driven by an obsession with realism and physicality — IMAX was the only cinematic language capable of translating the true sensation of motorsport to the screen.

    The film was shot using IMAX-certified digital cameras, including the RED Digital Cinema V-RAPTOR 8K, paired with Panavision full-frame lenses. This large-format approach delivers images that are simultaneously monumental in scale and surgical in detail—minimizing distortion, preserving depth, and transforming each frame into a panoramic field of motion. The result places the audience directly inside Felipe Nasr’s cockpit, where speed is not observed but experienced.

    IMAX considerations extended through every stage of post-production. The edit was shaped to respect spatial continuity and velocity at scale, allowing sequences to breathe rather than fragment. The sound mix—engineered specifically for IMAX’s dynamic range and spatial precision—functions as a physical force: engine resonance, tire deformation, wind pressure, and mechanical strain surround the viewer, replicating the sensory overload of being strapped into a race car at full throttle.

    For racing fans, 2DIE4 in IMAX is not simply the optimal way to watch the film — it is the film. It represents the closest cinematic approximation to being on track: immersive, relentless, and uncompromising. More than a format choice, the IMAX presentation stands as an extension of the filmmakers’ core intent—to deliver the most authentic and visceral racing experience ever committed to the screen.

  • Editing 2DIE4 was a race of its own. From 43 hours of raw footage, we reverse-engineered the screenplay, sculpting a clear, emotionally charged narrative entirely from events captured in real time.

    Taking cues from Apocalypse Now, we invite viewers to ride shotgun inside Felipe Nasr’s psyche. Instead of retrospective interviews, Felipe’s own voice steers the story—sharing his hopes, doubts, and split-second decisions—so the experience feels immediate, intimate, and cinematic.

    For editor and co-director André Abdala, writing and cutting were inseparable. He tested every configuration—reordering timelines, shifting perspectives—until the most powerful emotional arc emerged, a “snowball” of tension that builds lap after lap.

    Three months later, the result is a lean 60-minute film with no spare parts: pure momentum, pure adrenaline—an hour that flashes by at 220 mph.ion

  • From the outset, we knew sound would be as crucial as any image. Every line of dialogue, every team-radio exchange you hear in 2DIE4 was captured live at the circuit—unedited reality in the heat of competition. To match that authenticity, co-director André Abdala joined forces with sound designer Marcelo Guerreiro of Braggi Studio, rebuilding the aural world from the ground up.

    • Authentic engines: All car audio was recorded trackside, then painstakingly matched in post so each on-screen pass carries its true engine note.

    • Hand-crafted foley: Every screech, click, and cockpit vibration was recreated from scratch to mirror the physical stresses of 24-hour racing.

    • 160+ hours in the studio: Editing and mixing pushed past a full week’s worth of round-the-clock sessions to tune the smallest detail

    The result is a bespoke Dolby Atmos® immersive mix that treats the theatre as an extension of the cockpit. Channels are used theatrically, not just panned:

    • The race engineer’s voice routes to the rear surrounds, mimicking helmet comms

    • Engines sweep overhead as rivals blast past on the Mulsanne Straight.

    • Even the score is mixed immersively, wrapping the audience in an expanding acoustic field.

    The effect is visceral: viewers don’t simply watch 2DIE4 — they inhabit it, feeling every downshift and heartbeat as if strapped into Felipe Nasr’s seat.

  • 2DIE4 roars like a true action epic, and its soundtrack keeps the needle buried in the red. Heart-pounding cuts from Greta Van Fleet, Billy Idol, and the Goo Goo Dolls inject pure rock adrenaline, anchoring the film in the sonic energy racing fans crave.

    Complementing those iconic tracks is an all-original score composed exclusively for the project. Written to mirror every surge of Felipe Nasr’s pulse, the music guides the emotional rhythm of the story—shifting from raw urgency to quiet introspection as the stakes climb. Together, the licensed anthems and bespoke score create a seamless, full-throttle soundscape that brings the driver’s journey vividly to life.