Free Movie Screening with The Crash Reel
Venue: Haymarket Theater (Squires), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
The Schiffert Health Center at Virginia Tech presents a free movie screening featuring "The Crash Reel" as part of Brain Injury Awareness Week on Wednesday, February 27, 2019.

This eye-popping film seamlessly combines 20 years of stunning action footage with new specially-shot verite footage and interviews as it follows U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce and exposes the irresistible, but potentially fatal appeal of extreme sports.

An escalating rivalry between Kevin and Shaun White in the run-up to the 2010 Olympics leaves Shaun on top of the Olympic podium and Kevin in a coma following a training accident in Park City, Utah. Kevin’s tight-knit Vermont family flies to his side and helps him rebuild his life as a brain injury survivor.

But when he insists he wants to return to the sport he still loves, his family intervenes with his eloquent brother David speaking for all of them when he says, “I just don’t want you to die.” Kevin’s doctors caution him that even a small blow to the head could be enough to kill him. Will Kevin defy them and insist on pursuing his passion? With his now impaired skills, what other options does he have? How much risk is too much?

The 2013 documentary is rated G.

For more information, visit: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2499076/.

To view a trailer of the film, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KkFZ-QC53Q&feature=youtu.be.

Admission is free.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/c2WKjCh.jpg.

For more information, visit: https://gobblerconnect.vt.edu/event/3189809 or https://www.facebook.com/SchiffertHealthCenter/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/243631879846874/.

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