Filmakers - Deafness

Deafness

9 film(s) found

	The Anatomy of Eloquence This documentary examines the physiology of speech and shows how the larynx, vocal chords, wind pipe, tongue and lips produce the sounds of speech. Useful for speech and hearing programs. more »
	Hear and Now After 65 years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore the totally unfamiliar world of sound. In this deeply personal memoir, the filmmaker documents the profound changes in her parents' lives after the surgery. more »
	Learning to Hear This touching film explores the challenges and triumphs of two women. aged 36 and 44, who regained their hearing after undergoing a cochlear implant. The film follows the women through surgery, and shows their joy at rediscovering the hearing world. more »
	Sound and Fury This Academy Award nominated film is the story of two brothers who anguish over whether to allow their deaf children to have cochlear implants. One brother welcomes the chance for his child to be part of the hearing world. The other brother, who is deaf, does not want his offspring to leave the deaf culture and its sense of community. more »
	Sound and Fury: Six Years Later This is an engaging look at Heather Artinian six years after her family's saga captured audiences in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sound and Fury. In the first film, Heather’s parents decided not to implant her. In this stand-alone follow-up film we learn that Heather finally did get the implant at age 9. She is now popular at school and excels academically. more »
	Twins: Children with Cochlear Implants The film follows two sets of one-year-old twins for three years. Each set has one profoundly deaf twin who has been given a cochlear implant, and a hearing twin with whom their language development is compared. One can see the astonishing growth in the deaf children¹s speech and hearing as well as their integration and assimilation into mainstream life. more »
	Voices from El Sayed Because of a genetic predisposition, the Bedouin village of El Sayed in southern Israel has an extraordinary number of deaf people. The people of this village never regarded deafness as a handicap. They even created their own sign language. When one child was offered a cochlear implant by the Israeli government, the community was very conflicted. more »
	The Words of Silence Four deaf performers, an actress, a dancer, a percussionist and a mime explain how their art transcends the spoken word more »
	The World At His Fingertips Mike Van Oman, married and the father of two sons, lost both his sight and hearing when he was in his thirties. With the help of the Helen Keller National Center, he overcame despair and found a renewed sense of life and purpose. more »