Last year while in recovery from one of the worst crashes anyone’s ever seen, Jeremy Pancras decided to make a movie about the passion that drives his friends, some of the world’s best skiers, to push their bodies to the brink in pursuit of the skiing lifestyle. Read our exclusive interview with Jeremy to learn more about his motivations to make his first full film.

Pancras picked up a camera, and together with sidekick Hugo Laugier spent last season crisscrossing the Atlantic, bagging shoots from the X Games slopestyle course and Utah backcountry to the Whistler and Mammoth parks and the natural playground of La Clusaz, France. Along the way he documented the skier’s lifestyle with some of his buds, everyone from Torin Yater-Wallace and Jake Carney to Ski Boss Tanner Hall himself.