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Arriving amid debates about brain injuries in organized sports, Oscar-nominated documentarian Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel is a timely profile of professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce, whose career ...

PORTSMOUTH — Survivors of traumatic brain injuries listened attentively to professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce as he told them to “love your brain,” — something he had to learn after a severe ...

Lucy Walker's documentary is a case study of snowboarder Kevin Pearce. Pearce is a 23-year-old snowboarder who was training to represent the US at the Vancouver Winter Olympics when a crash on a ...