“Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution”
Oscar-nominated for 2020 Best Documentary Feature, Crip Camp is directed and produced by Jim Lebrech, who uses a wheelchair and is partly financed by Michelle and Barack Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.
Released by Netflix in March 2020, this little-known story portrays a group of young disabled teenagers at Camp Jened, their experience serving as a catalyst for the disability rights movement in the United States. After becoming empowered at camp in upstate New York in 1971, several key campers became activists. Masterminding a month-long sit-in at...