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The Business

Netflix’s ‘Crip Camp’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, when sound designer Jim LeBrecht was 15, he had a summer of love  at a camp for disabled kids. It was a place that fostered a spirit of history-changing activism. He and his friend, filmmaker Nicole Newnham, agreed that this was a movie. They didn’t anticipate that Barack and Michelle Obama would think so too. Newnham and LeBrecht tell us about their Netflix documentary “Crip Camp,” and partnering with the Obamas’ production company. 

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

0:05.0

This week we have a new doc for the Housebound.

0:08.0

In 1971, when sound designer Jim Lebrecht was 15,

0:12.0

he had a summer of love kind of experience at a camp for disabled kids,

0:16.0

a place that fostered a spirit of history-changing activism.

0:20.0

He shared his memories with his friend, filmmaker Nicole Noonam, and they agreed this could make a good movie.

0:26.2

They didn't anticipate that some VIP backers would think so, too.

0:30.5

What a sentence to be able to say.

0:32.1

We knew we could partner with the Obama's, Barack and Michelle.

0:36.4

It does still sound pretty amazing, you know, every time we say it.

0:40.7

Co-director's Nunaman Lebrecht, who was born with Spina Bifida and uses a wheelchair.

0:45.5

Tell us about making their new documentary Crip Camp, which won this year's Audience Award at Sundance,

0:50.6

and we'll be streaming on Netflix in a few days.

0:53.7

But first, despite everything, we banter.

0:56.9

Stick around.

0:57.7

It's the business from KCRW.

1:03.4

I am joined by my at-home buddy and banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:08.7

Hello, Matt.

1:09.4

Hi there.

1:09.9

Just to be clear, we are at our own homes, not at the same home.

1:14.0

Yes. We are not at the same home. We are both home, though, as is most of the KCRW staff and many, many people.

1:23.1

We want to say, for starters, how devastating and how much of our hearts are going out to everybody.

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