Obamas bringing disability rights film to Netflix
Originally published May 3, 2019 by Disability Scoop

Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend the unveiling of their official portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2018. The Obamas have a deal to produce content for Netflix. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)
Higher Ground, the production company created by former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, will be producing a documentary on seminal players in the early disability rights movement for Netflix. One of several films arising from a multi-year deal between Higher Ground and Netflix, Crip Camp will tell the story of a summer camp for teenagers with disabilities in the 1970s near Woodstock, N.Y. that helped springboard the disability rights movement.
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