Snow Blind is a 2006 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about the history, culture, and lifestyle of snowboarding. Shot over the season of 2004-2005, the film covers the origins of snowboarding, the evolution of it into an Olympic sport and the passionate participants, thrill seekers and competitors.

The film was released on December 8, 2006. The DVD release date is pending. It was filmed on location in Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

 and Utah

Utah

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 and shot entirely in HD

High-definition television

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.

Plot

The film is segmented into six major thematic sections:

• Inventors The individuals who started creating snowboards
• Pioneers The individuals who started riding snowboards before it was a sport
• Back Country The individuals who risk their lives riding in non-designated snowboarding areas
• Pros The teen and twenty-something professional athletes and Olympians
• Adaptors The individuals who have lost limbs or their eyesight but continue to snowboard
• Families Interviews the Teters and how snowboarding has influenced their lives

The film also has one mini section on Banana George, a 93-year old snowboarder.

Subjects

• Hannah Teter
  Hannah Teter
  Hannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...
  
  
• Abe Teter
• JJ Thomas
• Brent Meyer
• Jeff Meyer
• Rob Bak
• Ross Powers
  Ross Powers
  Ross Powers , is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont. Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, his home mountain is now Okemo, VT. Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park. Ross...
  
  
• Jeff Cormak
• Steve Fisher
• Louie Vito
• Steve Hayes
• Tina Basich
• Banana George

Music

• The Prodigy
  The Prodigy
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• The Donnas
  The Donnas
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• Orbital
  Orbital (band)
  Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...
  
  
• Carl Cox
  Carl Cox
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• Roni Size
  Roni Size
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• GZA
  GZA
  Gary Grice , better known by his stage names GZA and The Genius, is an American hip hop artist and founding member of the seminal hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. He has also appeared on his fellow clan members' solo projects and has maintained a successful solo career...