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Crip Camp starts in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York described as a "loose, free-spirited camp designed for teens with disabilities". [4] Starring Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James LeBrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and Stephen Hofmann, the film focuses on those campers who became activists in the disability rights movement and follows their fight for accessibility legislation.
In 1951, Camp Jened was established at the foot of Hunter Mountain [6] in the Catskill Mountains as a camp for disabled children, teenagers, and adults. [7] The camp was meant to provide a nurturing community environment for people with a range of disabilities, such as polio and cerebral palsy. Camp sessions were typically four or eight weeks. [7]
A version of this story about “Crip Camp” first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. One of the documentaries that opened the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Crip ...
Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Oscar-nominated movie Crip Camp (2020) which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple-Emmy-nominated film The Rape of Europa.
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Located just a short distance from Woodstock, Camp Jened in 1971 was a welcome and heady escape from the world for a group of kids with disabilities from polio to cerebral palsy. Review: ‘Crip ...
A fact from Crip Camp appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020 ...