Celebrating 35 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act!
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In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp "for the handicapped" in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone, and campers who felt fulfilled as human beings. Their bonds endured as they migrated West to Berkeley, California - a promised land for a growing and diverse disability community - where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption and unity might secure life-changing accessibility for millions.
Co-directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker Nicole Newnham and film mixer and former camper Jim LeBrecht, this joyous and exuberant documentary arrived the same year as the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at a time when the country's largest minority group still battles daily for the freedom to exist.
Score: 4.0
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“As entertaining as it is
inspiring, Crip Camp uses one group's remarkable story to
highlight hope for the future and the power of community.”
Rotten Tomatoes
“Using their voices for demonstrations and protests, they helped pass 1990’s
revolutionary Americans With Disabilities Act. This documentary proves that
they are still changing the world.”
Rolling Stone
“Directors LeBrecht and
Newnham do a nimble job of threading the stories of a number of campers into a
compelling narrative, deftly moving back and forth from the newsreel-style
footage from the 1970s and the interviews and life updates on the campers many
decades later.”
Chicago Sun-Times
“Thanks to Crip Camp, we can
all get a window into how a struggle is unified, people are emboldened, and
differences are made.”
TheWrap
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