Sundance 2025: Director Cristina Costantini found inspiration and heartache in American pioneer Sally Ride’s life Sally Ride , the first American woman to fly in space, was a childhood hero to many, including Cristina Costantini. The director of “Sally,” a new documentary that chronicles both the public and private sides of Ride’s life, admired her subject so profusely that she painted a portrait of her when she was in the third grade. “I think seeing a girl in a jumpsuit going to space, just