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‘Crip Camp’ Directors On Summer Camp That Changed Lives, Impacted Course Of U.S. History – Contenders Documentary

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Attending summer camp is a joyous time for many kids. For filmmaker Jim LeBrecht, it was life-changing.Born with spina bifida, LeBrecht first attended Camp Jened in upstate New York in 1970.

The Netflix documentary Crip Camp, which he directed with Nicole Newnham, reveals how Jened allowed kids with disabilities to be themselves.“Boy, it was really an incredible place,” LeBrecht says at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “For the first time I really felt like I had freedom…I was simply there to have a wonderful time with some incredible people.”Many of those people, their consciousness raised at Jened, went on to play leading roles in the nascent disability rights movement.

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