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We ve Got Hollywood Covered ‘Crip Camp’ Directors Grappled With a Question: Did a Teen Summer Camp Really Launch the Disability Rights Movement? TheWrap magazine: “My jaw hit the floor, because I never in my life imagined a radical hippie summer camp for teens with disabilities in the ’70s,” says co-director Nicole Newnham By Steve Pond | December 22, 2020 @ 4:46 PM Last Updated: December 22, 2020 @ 4:56 PM A version of this story about “Crip Camp” first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. One of the documentaries that opened the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Crip Camp” looks at Camp Jened, an upstate New York summer camp for disabled teens that helped inspire many key figures in the disability rights movement. It is a collaboration between documentary director Nicole Newnham (“The Rape of Europa”) and Jim LeBrecht, a sound mixer who himself attended the camp. ....