Jamie MoCrazy’s documentary is offered to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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Common readers of this column ought to recall my story from mid-Could during which I profile Jamie MoCrazy. MoCrazy, whose given final identify was Crane-Mauzy earlier than having it legally modified, is a former aggressive skier who suffered a traumatic mind harm in April 2015 whereas performing on the World Tour Finals in Whistler, British Columbia.
Just a few months after my interview with the MoCrazy sisters, information comes right this moment of the duo’s documentary, entitled #MoCrazyStrong, arriving on Amazon Prime Video. The webpage describes the movie as “highlighting household help, identification struggles, and overcoming TBI challenges.” It additionally notes the piece acquired recognition at each the New Port Seaside Movie Fest and Atlanta DocuFest festivals in 2023, in addition to choice in “a number of prestigious movie festivals.” It received for Greatest Biographical Documentary Brief in Atlanta. #MoCrazyStrong is brief, with a operating time of a mere 18 minutes. It’s now obtainable to lease or purchase in high-definition. A rental prices $3 whereas a purchase order is priced at $10.
Jamie has directorial credit score moreover Mark Locki. She introduced #MoCrazyStrong touchdown on Prime Video in a publish on LinkedIn.
As I wrote within the spring, MoCrazy’s mind started bleeding in eight locations and her mind stem broken; the accidents prompted full paralysis of the precise facet of her physique. Within the years following the accident, MoCrazy, alongside her sister Jeanee, have devoted their lives to working as advocates for these within the TBI group. MoCrazy’s group, the eponymous MoCrazy Robust Mind Harm Basis, was established to teach survivors of traumatic mind accidents, or TBIs, and their households on find out how to “construct a productive life price dwelling after mind harm,” in response to its web site. The MoCrazy Basis is about 2 years now, having been anointed knowledgeable 501c3 nonprofit in September 2022. Jamie described to me its focus as “[creating] alternatives for the 1.2 million Individuals who maintain traumatic mind accidents yearly.”
“On the time, I used to be competing professionally, the X-Video games was the summit,” MoCrazy stated to me of her life when she bought damage. “Solely 8 ladies on the earth have been invited, and competing on the X-Video games was the largest accomplishment you would obtain. After I was competing at Aspen X-Video games in 2013, I turned the primary lady to land a double-flip in a slopestyle competitors. After I was competing in snowboarding, it was by no means a query of why I wished to go to X-Video games. [It] was the best competitors… I knew I’d climb the profession mountain to the highest.”
Past her movie, Jamie presents one thing referred to as the MoCrazy Methodology. It’s touted as serving to individuals “study the steps in life to take permitting you to be your individual private greatest and create a life you like.” Jeanee defined the Methodology is a “digital academic roadmap for mind harm restoration” that folks from each nook of the nation have adopted.