“I’m a blue jeans and T-shirt kind of guy, so this is quite the moment for me,” says Jim LeBrecht, who along with Nicole Newnham co-directed Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards for best documentary feature.
An inspiring story of Camp Jened, a Catskills summer camp for the disabled, Crip Camp is also partly LeBrecht’s story; he has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, and first visited Camp Jened as a teenager in 1971.
It was there, while meeting other disabled teens, that LeBrecht began to feel like less of an outsider, he says. When he learned that the film was nominated, LeBrecht’s thoughts naturally went to what he might wear, and his friend, actress and disabled-rights advocate Sinead Burke, offered.
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