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Crip Camp director Jim LeBrecht ready for tailor-made Oscar debut

Edward Guthmann April 22, 2021Updated: April 22, 2021, 6:33 pm Co-directors Jim LeBrecht (right) and Nicole Newnham Photo: Courtesy of James LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham, Tommy Lau Photography When Jim LeBrecht attends the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25, he plans to wear a bespoke tuxedo designed by a high-end European fashion house. Movie stars get that treatment all the time, but LeBrecht is an Oakland independent filmmaker whose Oscar-nominated documentary feature, “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” was made on a budget that’s minuscule when stacked against a Hollywood release. He also has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. “I’ve never had anyone create anything specifically for me,” LeBrecht, 64, says in the backyard of his Oakland hills home. “I’ve got a rather unique body. … My hips are out of whack and my legs swerve a little. One is 23 inches long; the other’s 25 inches. It’s body jazz, basically. Atypical.”

It was like freedom: How a camp for disabled children changed lives

Can summer camp change the world? The documentary “Crip Camp” makes the case that one particular camp impacted the lives not only of the young people there but the culture at large, through the fight for disability rights. The film, from the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama, is vying for an Oscar this Sunday. Jeffrey Brown has a look for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. Read the Full Transcript Can summer camp change the world? The documentary Crip Camp makes the case that one particular camp impacted the lives not only of the young people there, but the culture at large, through the fight for disability rights.

Secret agents, campfires and octopi: this year s Oscar race for Best Documentary

‘Collective’ joins the ranks of great films about investigative journalism (photo: IMDB) The 2020 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature showcase a wide array of topics, from the injustices of incarceration to the blossoming friendship between a man and an octopus. Here are the contenders. Time (Amazon Prime). On Sept. 16, 1997, Robert G. Richardson and his wife, Sibil Fox, co-owners of a now-defunct hip-hop clothing shop in Shreveport, La., committed armed robbery at a Louisiana credit union and unwittingly initiated a protracted and painful battle against the state’s criminal justice system. Richardson’s wife, nicknamed Fox Rich, was sentenced to 13 years prison for driving her husband to the bank, but she accepted a plea deal which reduced her time behind bars. (She served three-and-half years in total.) Her husband, Rob, refused a deal and received an undoubtedly excessive, devastating sentence: 60 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

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