The Crash Reel

Synopsis

This eye-popping, yet intimate, story of U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce uses years of vérité footage to expose the potentially high price of participating in extreme- action sports. Training to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin suffered massive head trauma from a 2009 accident in Park City, Utah. His tight-knit Vermont family flew to his side, and together they began an intensive process of trying to rehabilitate him and help him rebuild his permanently damaged life.

Director Biography

Director Lucy Walker’s documentaries have won more than 50 film awards, and she has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, firstly for Waste Land (2010), a documentary feature which also won more than 30 other awards including Audience Awards at both Sundance and Berlin, and a year later for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011), about survivors of Japan’s 2011 tsunami, which also won the nonfiction jury prize at Sundance.