Netflix has released the trailer to Crip Camp, the feature documentary that opened this year’s Sundance Film Festival and went on to take the Audience Award.
Netflix will stream it on March 25 launch and it will also have a theatrical awards qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York.
On the heels of Woodstock, a group of teen campers are inspired to join the fight for disability civil rights. This spirited look at grassroots activism was directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht and executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
CRIP CAMP explores the revolution that blossomed in a ramshackle, unorthodox summer camp for teenagers with disabilities in the early 1970s, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement. This joyous and exuberant documentary, co-directed by Emmy winning filmmaker Nicole Newnham and sound mixer (and former camper) James LeBrecht, draws from a jaw-dropping store of archival footage to show how the campers’ bonds endured as they migrated West to Berkeley, California — a promised land for a growing and diverse disability community — where they realized that by working together they might secure life-changing accessibility for millions.
Arriving 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, the film is executive produced by President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Priya Swaminathan, Howard Gertler, Josh Braun, Ben Braun, Matt Burke, Raymond Lifchez, Jonathan Logan, and Patty Quillin.
Trailer
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