Westbeth Movie Night
Crip Camp

Friday December 17, 2021 at 7PM
Westbeth Community Room
FREE Screening

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film directed, written and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama serve as executive producers.

Crip Camp starts in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York described as a “loose, free-spirited camp designed for teens with disabilities”. With disability activists, Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James LeBrecht, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and Stephen Hofmann, the film focuses on those campers who turned themselves into activists for the disability rights movement and follows their fight for accessibility legislation.

Crip Camp had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2020, where it won the Audience Award. It has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 99 reviews.