Hear and Now

Hear and Now is a 2007 documentary film by Irene Taylor Brodsky, winning awards in 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival and the Heartland Film Festival and garnering a Peabody Award in 2008.

The documentary introduces the couples personal histories childhood years learning to communicate in a special school, experiencing the stigma surrounding deafness in mainstream high schools, and having meaningful careers in the Deaf community at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Paul was a pioneer in development of TDD telecommunications device for the deaf which is also known as TTY.The couples filmmaker daughter chronicled these surgeries and the aftermath. The film show some of the shortterm consequences, including both expected and unexpected adjustments each would need to make. These two deaf people investigate the sounds and meaning of sounds but learning what not to hear becomes an equally significant challenge. The camera records quite different reactions as the couple struggles to adjust after living deaf for a lifetime. The effects of the surgeries are not entirely positive. ........

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