As artists in the film and television industry who also happen to be deaf, Shoshannah Stern and Joshua Feldman know first-hand how hard it can be to see themselves reflected on-screen. So they crea…
,” which returns for its second season on Sept. 12. But in taking the reins of a Hollywood production, they knew it wasn’t enough to merely tell stories about the deaf experience but also to empower other such individuals in the business behind the scenes, as well.
But instead of offering him a chance to merely observe and learn with a bit of distance, Stern wanted to offer him an actual job. The caveat, of course, was that he had to move to Los Angeles, where ““Sometimes when I go onto set and I’m the only deaf person there I’m trying to figure out, do they know how to communicate with me? Do they know how to communicate with my interpreter? I try to be very cognizant of that and make sure everyone who comes on my set feels very welcomed,” Stern says.
Stern considers the first season of the show “an introduction” and way to ease the audience into “a world they had never seen before.” “The first season felt intimate. Season 2, we really do want to take Kate and Michael and put them in a bigger world,” Feldman says.
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