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D-MAP at Sundance

A brightly-colored well-lit marquee outside a movie theatre reads Sundance Film Festival.

We’re pleased to announce that our own Lawrence Carter-Long will represent the Disability & Media Alliance Project and DREDF at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah! At the request of the Sundance Institute, Lawrence will not only be taking in and reporting on this year’s exciting disability-centered programing, writing regular updates for Film Quarterly magazine and for DREDF, he’ll also be helping Sundance organizers advance representation of disabled people both on and off-screen by taking part in Sundance’s annual strategic planning meeting for inclusion-focused Allied Organizations, participating in panels and workshops, and reporting on various activities during the festival.

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Documentary Movies

Opening Night of the Sundance Film Festival: Crip Camp!

Outdoors in the summer. Three shirtless smiling men in the foreground. One is carrying the other. In the background a young man in a wheelchair in the grass.

Crip Camp / U.S.A. (Directors: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Producers: Sara Bolder, Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham) — Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

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Unique Abilities, Disabilities, and, Frozen 2

Elsa shooting ice from her right hand.

“When Elsa finally unleashes and uses her powers to build an ice castle where she plans to live in isolation, she suddenly feels free and discovers much to her surprise that there are things she can control. She realizes that denying her power erases a central part of her,” reminds Susan Henderson Executive Director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) “Much like the film, both parents and children alike need to embrace the fact that a person’s disabilities are inseparable from who they are, and that’s OK, because like any trait, having a disability helps shape our world view; how we get around in the world; what we experience, learn and value.”

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