The recent Sundance docudrama 'The Tuba Thieves' is a case study in the creative — and inclusive — potential of open captions, writes producer and deaf media advocate Delbert Whetter.
groundbreaking run on the awards circuit, writer/director Sian Heder frequently expressed her hopes that the film’s success could be one of the “
” of the wealth of talent that exists within the Deaf community, heralding a new wave of deaf talent in Hollywood not only in front of but behind the camera as well.One of the boldest statements to portend such an avalanche comes through deaf writer-director Alison O’Daniel’s experimental docudrama’s “innovative, forward-thinking” NEXT program.
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