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This Close began as Fridays, Stern and Feldman's Kickstarter web series, [1] and then premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival's Episodic Showcase as The Chances.It was Sundance Now's first straight-to-series order, [2] and centers on two deaf best friends navigating their twenties in Los Angeles.
The camera records quite different reactions as the couple struggles to adjust after living deaf for a lifetime. [3] The effects of the surgeries are not entirely positive. [5] The film establishes cochlear implant surgery in an intimate family setting rather than the larger context of the Deaf community. [6]
The deaf brother has a deaf wife and a deaf daughter. While he opposes cochlear implants, his daughter wants one. The hearing brother has a hearing wife, and the couple have a deaf baby for whom they explore the option of cochlear implants. The film explores the relationship between the culturally deaf community and cochlear implants.
EXCLUSIVE: The story of the real-life 1988 protests at all-deaf Gallaudet University that became a watershed moment for the deaf community in the U.S. is being turned into a feature film. Jules ...
Many of the actors were recruited from the deaf community. [10] For eight months, Ahmed prepared for the film by spending two hours a day learning American Sign Language, two hours a day in drum lessons, two hours a day with a personal trainer and the remainder with his acting coach.
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Deaf cinema is a movement that includes all works produced and directed by deaf people or members of the deaf community and is led by deaf actors. All these works have a tendency to nurture and develop the culture's self image and to reflect correctly the core of the Deaf culture and language.
Jevon first enrolled at Oregon School for the Deaf in the fall of 1984 as a sophomore. He found community in sports. He played football and basketball, but it was in track and field where he was best.