Sundance's opening night brought tales of political awakenings, for summer campers and a pop icon

The first two movies that played in the Sundance Film Festival’s big room, the Eccles Theatre in Park City, on the festival’s opening night was that they told stories of people finding their voice as activists.

The first, “Crip Camp,” told of a summer camp for disabled kids in New York’s Catskills Mountains in the 1970s, and how the kids who went there went on to become fighters for the rights of the disabled. Here’s my account of the opening screening, as seen on sltrib.com.

The other, “Taylor Swift: Miss Americana,” shows the pop icon pushing herself to develop an adult voice, both musically and in the political arena. Here’s my recounting of the Q&A with Swift and director Lana Wilson, also on sltrib.com.