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Disability
For the first time ever Sundance Festival had Audio Description (AD) and Assisted Listening Devices (ALD) This was provided for all screening for people who are blind, have low vision, or difficulty hearing. Every event, Sundance staff were able to give individual headsets if requested. American Sign Language was also provided at every Sundance event and Filmmaker Lodge panels. This year, every theater and shuttle had wheel chair accessibility.

This year, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, is a documentary about Camp Jened in upstate New York in 1951. Camp Jened was a summer camp for teenagers with disabilities. A place where they could feel free and act as they pleased. It wasn’t just a place where they could act up, but also a place where it would help them grow political and progressive. The film continues to show how years later some of the alumni participated in activism, and helped establish legal acts for all disable Americans. Eventually, the camp closed in 1977. Jim LeBrecht, the co-director of the Film, was alumni from Camp Jened, making Sundance history. The Film Crip Camp also won the award for U.S. Documentary Competition in this year’s Sundance Festival Films.

The Crip Camp was not the only film that won an award about a film with people with disabilities that year. The Reason I Jump, directed by Jerry Rothwell. This film was based on a book by Naoki Higashida on his life when he was 13 years old. A young Japanese boy on his life conquest though landscape. As his thought, feeling, impulses, and emotions turbulence all of his decisions, he eventually realized what autism means to him. The film focuses on five different people and their insight of life living with disabilities. This film opens the emotions and reality of people with disabilities. The reason why this film won the for Word Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Festival 2020.

User talk:Taywall2828/sandbox/IDSgroupsandboxRmoncada (talk) 18:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)