Irene Taylor Brodsky's documentary "Hear and Now" about her parents, who had been deaf all their lives, getting cochlear implants, has won the U.S. audience award at the Sundance film festival. Indiewire has a picture and a summary. YouTube also has a video profile of Brodsky and her documentary, including clips from the film. Unfortunately, it is not captioned...
Thank you for sharing with us! wow I am behind the news! all I can say “interesting!” hummm oh well hopeful that we can see more deaf filmmakers win at Sundance someday! me..nah!! hard!!! long story.
You see, it is not captioned. Why did not you complain about them?
” Unfortunately, it is not captioned” –this film is about Deaf people and it does not want a Deaf audience?
Is this documentary for purchase yet??
AH I met film-maker and her parents at pre-view film party. To my shock moment I have already felt oppressed in this environment. They knew ASL and there was noooo ASL interpret for music perform and noooo caption for pre-view film.
I noticed the father just sat quietly and say nothing but the mother was happy trying to be friendly with the hardest as possible to speak with voice.
I was the only Deaf without HA nor could speak with voice. This party was full of hearies without knowledgeable of Deaf culture. It was all about vanity reaching out rich hearies to invest for her film. It was very bad situation grrrr.
So here she won Sundance because of wealthy and fame people. Nothing about advocate for the Deaf community. It was very sad! I cannot deny it was good film but damn her…how she approach with Deaf community.