This winter, rural Manitoba is playing itself in a feature film called Northern Lights, a gritty coming-of-age drama with a backdrop of frozen rivers and small-town snowmobile tracks. Helping bring that world to the screen is Doug Godard, a longtime snowmobiler and member with Border Valley Snow Goers, and a man who has been riding since the age of six. Not the glossy television version filmed in Quebec or Ontario, but the family-oriented, club-run, community-built reality of Manitoba riding. Border Valley Snow Goers groomers will be used to build practice tracks for actors. St. Jean, like many small Manitoba communities, doesn’t shut down when the snow falls.