The Casati Story
A father who left the life that was planned for him.
Two sons who turned the ocean into a classroom.
Father · Coach · Architect of a method
Years ago Renato left everything behind: a steady job and a path already written, to raise his sons by the sea. The ocean became their classroom and every day became training, built on attention and complete trust. He coaches more by watching and asking than by telling, pushing them to understand themselves and not just the sport.
Two Brothers
Lorenzo and Leonardo grew up between wind, water and daily sessions with their father. Same falls, same hunger, two riders shaped by one method and pulled by different instincts. They push each other harder than anyone else could.
Lore
One of the most dominant riders Big Air has ever seen. Years at the top of the sport, and a 2025 that put him in a class of his own.
Leo
The sport's newest revelation, and now its World Champion. Junior world titles, a Red Bull King of the Air podium, and a rise to the top among the youngest ever. Instinctive and fearless, he rides without hesitation.
Approach
The film is built from three sources. The interviews are properly made: controlled light, composed frames, cine glass, shot in the four places that mean something to this family. The events are covered live and handheld, close to the action, where nothing can be shot twice. And running underneath both, Renato's archive: he has filmed his sons since the day they were born, and almost none of it has ever been seen. It is the one thing a documentary shot from scratch can never have.
Hard sun, salt, water that changes colour with the wind. At the events we take the light as it comes. For the interviews we shape it.
Renato never stopped filming: two boys learning to stand on a board, then every season after that. Footage that exists nowhere else, cut through the present-day story.
Every conversation is set up and lit where it belongs: the house, the water's edge, the old streets in Como. The place says as much as the answers do.
The breath before a jump, the crash, the look exchanged when no one speaks. Motion sets the rhythm.
Frames from our films.
Interview inspiration.
The Production Roadmap
Raised by the Wind is shot over a full year. We follow the season event after event, and in the time between we film the interviews and the family life that give the story its depth. It all comes together in one film.
The interviews
Four places where we sit down with family, friends and riders
What the riders say when the Casatis aren't listening.
One of the capitals of the kite world. Here we hand the story to the people around them: riders, coaches, friends. How a self-made family from an Italian lake rewrote a sport, how they changed training culture, and why it matters beyond the results. Outside voices that give the legend its weight.
Before the ocean, there was a lake.
We go back to where Renato began. Interviews with his parents, the grandparents who watched a young man refuse the life laid out for him. Old streets, old photographs, the house he left. This is the "before": the certainty Renato traded for wind, and the roots his sons carry without ever having lived them.
This is where the method lives.
The Casati home, today. Not the podiums. The in-between. Mornings, gear drying in the sun, dinners that slide into training analysis. The house as the headquarters of a way of life, where discipline is just habit and family is the team. The ordinary that makes the extraordinary possible.
Where the wind never stops, neither do they.
Relentless wind, endless water. Hours of repetition, wipeouts, resets, and Renato on the beach reading every jump. This is the method in motion: every session a lesson, every crash a lesson too. The unglamorous engine behind the results, shot up close.
The events
Five competitions we follow across the season
Craft
This is not event coverage with a long lens from the beach. The film is shot on cinema cameras and cine glass, with the same crew and the same kit we put on commercial work for Ducati, Lamborghini and Moncler.
Recent productions.
The team
This isn't an outside crew. Mattia Baruffaldi has shared years of trips and kite sessions with the Casatis: a friend before a director, with the access and trust a family gives only to its own.
Mattia is an action director raised in Valtellina and based in Milan, he shoots commercials and branded films, from MotoGP to the water, for names like Red Bull, Ducati, Moncler, Kappa and Lamborghini.
Distribution
The film comes out as a finished feature documentary, supported by a trailer and a series of short-form cuts designed to build momentum around the release. From there, it follows a clear path: festivals, platforms, broadcast and partner channels.
A trailer and a set of short-form cuts built to introduce the story and drive audiences towards the full film. Released across the family's and partners' existing channels, they create awareness and build momentum around the documentary.
The first step in the film's wider journey: ocean, surf and action-sports festivals such as the International Ocean Film Tour, London Surf / Film Festival and BCN Sports Film, alongside established outdoor film circuits such as Banff and European Outdoor Film Tour.
A strong festival presence builds visibility, credibility and an audience around the film, while creating opportunities for further distribution.
Following the festival run, the film can move into streaming and broadcast, targeting platforms and broadcasters looking for distinctive sports and outdoor stories.
With genuine access to the family and a story that goes beyond the sport itself, the film has the potential to stand apart from conventional event or athlete-driven content.
The film can also live across the channels of the partners involved, extending its reach beyond the traditional film circuit.
The documentary becomes both a standalone story and a long-form brand asset, while the trailer and short-form cuts continue to feed social content around the release.
References
Films built for some of the world's most demanding brands, across motorsport, luxury and the outdoors.
The fit
Big Air is decided in seconds, and the consequences are real. What Renato built is not instinct: it is preparation, repetition and every wipeout read before the next attempt. That is the same argument Capital.com makes about its own users, told from a beach instead of a screen. Backing this film is not renting a logo on a wetsuit, it is watching your own thesis play out in front of a camera.
Investment
A year of production, delivered as one film and the cuts built to push it. The kind of asset that keeps working long after a campaign would have finished running.
The brand is not dropped on top of the film. It is there because it is part of the year: on the kit, at the events, in the places this family works. Nobody skips it.
A campaign is over in a few weeks. A documentary goes to festivals, reaches the platforms and stays online, carrying whoever backed it for years.
Figures are indicative and net of VAT. Travel, accommodation and insurance are estimated at current rates and confirmed once dates, locations and event access are locked, and may vary with flight and season pricing. Additional shooting days beyond those quoted, and any use outside web, print and promotional material, are quoted separately. Three rounds of revisions are included on every deliverable.
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