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This screening has reached its registration capacity.

Don’t miss the Q&A…

After you register for this screening, be sure to register for the follow-up event, Members-Only Q&A: Crip Camp, featuring a conversation with writers/directors/producers Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. (Friday, November 13 – 3:00 pm PT)

Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch Crip Camp in our Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media.

In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia; a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone, and campers felt fulfilled as human beings. Their bonds endured as they migrated west to Berkeley, California — a promised land for a growing and diverse disability community — where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption and unity might secure life-changing accessibility for millions.

Co-directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker Nicole Newnham and film mixer (and former camper) Jim LeBrecht, this joyous and exuberant documentary arrives the same year as the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at a time when the country’s largest minority group still battles daily for the freedom to exist. Crip Camp is executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama; Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan; Oscar® nominee Howard Gertler (How to Survive a Plague) and Raymond Lifchez, Jonathan Logan and Patty Quillin; LeBrecht, Newnham and Sara Bolder produce.

 
2020, 106 minutes, color | Written by Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht | Directed by Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht | Featuring Judy Heumann, Jim LeBrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson | Produced by Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder

Registration Information

All Film Independent Members can register for this online screening starting at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, October 28. | Registration is free; one registration per Membership. | Proof of Member status is required to complete registration.

Arts Circle and Film Lover Members are guaranteed access to this event; email membership@filmindependent.org for more information.

How to Watch

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