CrossWind is the title of the new skydiving film produced and directed by the French filmaker Patrick Passe. CrossWind is a complete 52 minute movie filmed in 16 mm film in which the power of the relative wind will be the source during the whole film. In CrossWind many excellent skydivers are showing the way they are flying with the relative wind to perform at their best in their choosen discipline, pushing forward their own technical skills and, sometime, the danger limits.

Patrick Passe quotes :"This film will be by far the best I have ever done. I have worked during the last three years with many talented people in the skydiving world. The cinematography is beautiful, the action is amazing. CrossWind will definitely be breathtaking to all skydivers, the impact of this film will certainly be carried on for the next skydiving generations.

In our present day, it is difficult to amaze skydivers with skydiving footage as there is now so many good videos from many excellent camera flyers showing all around the world the different sides of our sport in constant evolution. To be successful for all different types of skydivers, a skydiving movie has to present outstanding outstanding cinematography, alot of technicity and talent from excellent skydivers performing at their best, unique action, a short story, the right editing with an original music

Also, on the top of this, the film must have its own soul and personnality, expanding an emotional vibe in the heart of the viewers. For me, making CrossWind was a bet as, for the first time in the skydiving cinematography history, I wanted to make a film which gives a face to the relative wind by making it almost visible, through whole footage, in the mind of the viewers."

The film starts by showing the contrast between the freefall and the human flight. Then, the viewer enters in an exciting atmosphere where the relative wind becomes a huge and magic wave bringing the ultimate aerial ride to some of the best skydivers in the world.

At first, the FlyBoyz present their team skills and draw incredible curves in the sky trailing smoke. Patrick Passe filmed the skydives from underneath to show the dynamic trajectories of the three freeflyers leaving behind them long tails of yellow smoke. The visual of this segment creates an amazing sensation of speed.

A Wing Suit segment will take the viewers on a magic ride. The French skydiver Loïc Jean Albert, designer of this new model of wing suit, presents the ultimate way of flying it. In the heart of La Reunion Island, Loic exits a plane next to the edge of a 4 000 ft mountain to fly during 1 minute 30 seconds between 200 and 500 ft above the rocks edge before he gets back into a valley to have enough altitude to open his BASE parachute.

There is danger also when Bruno Brokken and Richie Hornig go for challenging swoop situations. Slicing the timeless waters beneath a bridge, they decide on a rather more exciting approch not giving any chance for mistakes. They know this Spanish vintage bridge with archs of stone spanning across a river. The entrance for this swoop is dangerous, right at the beginning 'becareful' for this swoop and don't get wet at the end. This could happen but Bruno and Richie look way cool during deadicated flares.

Above the desert of Arizona, the team Airspeed, two times 4 way RW World Champions and one time 8 way, displays how to use the relative wind to fly at their best. During this segment, the camera presents a new vision of RW sequential flight. Airspeed members catch the wind in the most agressive ways, looking often like frisbees swirling in the air, flying supremley into 3D RW flight situations. With a lot of slow motion footage, the segment shows the beauty of technical moves in sequential flight.

Always in the warm sky of Arizona, Omar Alhegalan shows solid elegance, with his combination freefly, freestyle and back tracking. He demonstrates "the master" of the "head up" freefly position flying all around and relative to his Skyball. Omar becomes also an human wing when he is surfing the relative wind by using the power from the surface area of his back.

A segment presents our fun in skydiving in New Zealand one of the most scenic countries in the world. Wendy Smith take the viewers through beautiful freefly and wing suit flights high above the Lake Taupo and its magic light of the summer time.

In New Zealand also, Rickster Powell flies the Velocity swooping gorgeous Lake Taupo's Volcanic Plateau, between large rocks pushed up from beneath the earth, across the surface of this crystal water and piloting his high speed canopy inside narrow and bush covered volcanic ravins. After the amazing segment with Rickster in Passe's movie AntiGravity, the extreme swooper now adapts and refines his style with the high performance of the Velocity. This is the best demonstration of hight technical flight during swoops and flares.

Patrick Passe has never presented a base jump sequence in his movies, until now. CrossWind presents the best base jumping action ever seen. A group of highly experienced French base jumpers shows their extreme flying skills during a few seconds between the clifts edge and their choosen opening altitude close to the impact point. For this segment, the best is the incredidble two points 4 way base jump from "the Brento", a 3 000 ft cliff in Italy. At first, the Frenchs launch a 4 way star and then built a diamond.

The final segment of CrossWind presents Olav Zipser flying like dolphins swim. Olav shows unique freeflying skills when he is playing radically with the Space Ball. But the father of the freefly becomes definitely an atmospheric dolphin when he is freeflying in and around a 10 way star with Sebastian XL 4 way team and friends. Olav open a new gate in the sky by showing an incredible edge in freefly in a way never seen before.