Help support the #MoCrazyStrong participants and film makers with their TBI advocacy throughout their award-winning documentary film festival run. Your financial contribution will help #MoCrazyStrong continue their mission to raise awareness and support education on TBI recovery opportunities.
When professional skier Jamie MoCrazy suffered a serious traumatic brain injury following a ski accident, her life cartwheeled upside down. With the educated support of her family and medical caregivers, Jamie not only survived, but made a full recovery, helping revolutionize early stage TBI treatment, change protocol surrounding family involvement, and now inspiring others.
This award-winning documentary film takes viewers through Jamie’s story, interviewing Jamie’s ICU neuro doctor, the first responder who intubated Jamie on the mountain and a family the MoCrazy Strong team has given peer to peer brain injury guidance too.
Interviews with Jamie’s family are sprinkled throughout the film winding up in present day Whistler BC, where Jamie is about to get married to the love of her life atop the mountain that almost took her life. Using a mix of archival, reenactments, verité and interview footage, we recount how Jamie overcame her critical TBI and charted a path in helping others through their injuries.
The MoCrazy Strong story shows the importance of opportunities, a positive mindset, reframing challenges, person centered care and family caregiving education to rebuild your life after brain injury.
This award-winning film highlights the invisible challenges TBI survivors and their family caregivers face during recovery. We want to give hope and inspiration that given the right opportunities brain injury survivors can have a recover back to a life they love after brain injury.
Jamie’s story centers around person-centered care and the healing options anyone can use to live a full life after a TBI. She received integrative care from her medical team as well as family caregivers led by her mom. She also received opportunities to recover like being a High Fives Grant Athlete, Utah TBI Fund recipient, and going back to skiing with the National Ability Center.
Jamie received complementary medicine treatments led by her mom, Grace MA, PhD candidate on mind-body medicine with a focus on TBI recovery. Many aspects of Jamie’s recovery are miraculous, and the incredible fact is most of those science-backed, peer-reviewed improvements are re-creatable for other individuals!
By telling Jamie’s story we hope to change the narrative regarding all brain injury recoveries.We want to ignite a passion in the minds of TBI survivors and family caregivers showing them how they can have the best recovery possible.
We also want to show those involved in policy change the importance and role through TBI recovery of family involvement, person centered practices, complementary medicine and healing opportunities. Show the medical teams the importance and necessity of integrative brain injury recovery techniques.
Interviewees and appearances in the film include:
Film Festival Submissions, Marketing and PR: We were honored to have our global premier at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, a festival where only 6% of the films who apply get in. We followed that by winning an award at Atlanta DocuFest, screening at Kansas City, NorthWest, Mountain Film Festival, Lighthouse Film Festival and Main Outdoor Film Festival. We are touring film festivals until we go public in March 2024.
Film Festival Attendance: #MoCrazyStrong participants attending festivals boosts our nonprofit mission to raise awareness about brain injury recovery opportunities. Every festival we answer brain injury questions on stage as well as have private discussions.
Licensing and Legal: we need to make sure all our t’s are crossed and i’s dotted with the legalities of the film.
In conjunction with the Film Festival Run, we are running an impact campaign consisting of private screenings at Brain Injury Association and Alliance affiliates, medical schools, higher education programs, female empowerment and outdoor events.