This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jon Llewellyn, a 51-year-old snow project manager who makes fake snow for TV and films. It's been edited for length and clarity.

Offering high output in a user-friendly package, the Chauvet DJ Snow Machine lets you recreate a blizzard in your yard—whether or not the temperature is sub-freezing. Simply flip the Hi/Low blower ...

A sledding slope packed with artificial snow is open at the Hakone-en resort facility on the shores of Lake Ashinoko here to ...

I live in a Canadian town where hundreds of Hallmark movies are filmed. Here's what it's like, fake snow and all.

With this in mind, I was always under the impression that snow in any holiday movies was totally fake. As it turns out, ...