Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

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Date: January 01, 2020 to December 31, 2020
Dates Note: 2020
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W/Color
Silent: No
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Free Films on BAMPFA’s Outdoor Screen
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This culture-changing, award-winning documentary draws on archival materials and intimate stories from campers, camp counselors, journalists, and activists to show how a summer camp for disabled teens LeBrecht attended in 1971 helped spark a civil rights movement for people with disabilities. The film follows the story from the Catskills through Berkeley, and ultimately on to Washington DC and the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. “This is a movie that starts with powerful memories of childhood but uses them as merely seeds for something much greater—a look at how formative experiences can really shape the future. Expertly editing together moving interviews with its subjects with archival material, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution becomes a commentary on how to change the world. It’s not just common human decency that should lead to equality for disabled people, but the truth that empowerment for everyone is the only path to true progress for anyone” (Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com).

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Documentary Voices 2021
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This culture-changing, award-winning documentary draws on archival materials and intimate stories from campers, camp counselors, journalists, and activists to show how a summer camp for disabled teens that James LeBrecht attended in 1971 helped spark a civil rights movement for people with disabilities. The film follows the story from the Catskills through Berkeley, and ultimately on to Washington, DC, and the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. “This is a movie that starts with powerful memories of childhood but uses them as merely seeds for something much greater—a look at how formative experiences can really shape the future. Expertly editing together moving interviews with its subjects with archival material, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution becomes a commentary on how to change the world. It’s not just common human decency that should lead to equality for disabled people, but the truth that empowerment for everyone is the only path to true progress for anyone” (Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com).

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