Friday, April 10, 2020

Crip Camp : A Disability Revolution (2020)


Released March 25th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story: In the early 1970s there was a summer camp in the Catskills of New York.
The camp was exclusively for the handicapped and it was called Camp Jened.
Camp Jened was a groundbreaking place unlike any other.
Everyone who attended the camp had a handicap of some kind.
It was a place where no one would feel alone or discriminated against due to their handicaps.
Everyone was free to be who they were and happy to be together.
Many lifelong friendships were made at Camp Jened.
It also gave many the courage to go on and help change the laws and human rights for the handicapped people of the world.
Stars Dennis Billups, HolLynn D Lil, Judith Heumann, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Lionel JeWoodyard, James Lebrecht, Evan White 
Directed by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham
Rated R
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