The new Netflix documentary “Crip Camp” centers on Camp Jened, a summer camp for those with disabilities. As told in the doc, it would go on to spark something of a revolution in the disability rights movement.
Filmmakers Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (who had worked with Newnham as a sound designer on her projects) teamed up to co-direct.
LeBrecht had been to Camp Jened, and he was looking to tell a story about his experience there. “I talked to Nicole about a different project around disability and wasn’t seeing things that told the complete story and it stuck with her,” he says.
He sent Newnham a link to a Facebook page that people who had been to Camp Jened had been contributing to for years, and it had an impact.
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