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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 ...

MONTREAL – The Crash Reel is not your typical snowboarding movie, which boarders watch on repeat to get pumped up and learn new tricks. And yet it profiles one of the top athletes in the sport. Kevin ...

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 ...

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 ...