{"id":1969,"date":"2013-11-12T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/der.org\/community\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2018-02-02T18:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:52:04","slug":"free-film-screening-a-life-without-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/free-film-screening-a-life-without-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Film Screening: A Life Without Words – Thursday, December 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe film, flowing with sublime images, is as poignant as it is captivating. \u201d \u2014 La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cA masterpiece of aesthetic images and a plea for language as a fundamental human right.\u201d \u2014 DOK.fest Munich<\/p>\n

DER\u2019s Fall Film Series comes to a close on December 5th with the intimate and aesthetically stunning documentary, A Life Without Words<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hailed as one of the top five Latin American documentaries of 2012 by the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival, A Life Without Words<\/cite> portrays deaf siblings, Dulce Mar\u00eda and Francisco, raised in rural Nicaragua who have lived their entire lives without any access to language \u2014 spoken, written, or signed \u2014 until a deaf sign-language teacher arrives determined to teach them their first words. As we enter their isolated world, we are presented with uncomfortable questions about what life would be like without language. This film, however, avoids hard and fast answers, and is a quiet exploration of the challenging questions it poses.<\/p>\n

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Adam Isenberg, and with the founder of the Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects<\/a>, James Shepard-Kegl.<\/p>\n

The film will be shown with subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, and an ASL interpreter will be present during the Q&A.<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> December 5th at 7pm
\nWhere:<\/strong> The Bright Family Screening Room<\/a> at Emerson\u2019s Paramount Center, 4th floor
\n559 Washington St, Boston, Massachusetts 02111
\nFacebook event page<\/a><\/p>\n

Admission is free and open to the public, so please spread the word to your friends, students, colleagues, and social media outlets! We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

DER\u2019s Fall Film Series is sponsored in part by Emerson College and the United Nations Association of Boston.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe film, flowing with sublime images, is as poignant as it is captivating. \u201d \u2014 La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi \u201cA masterpiece of aesthetic images and a plea for language as a fundamental human right.\u201d \u2014 DOK.fest Munich DER\u2019s Fall Film Series comes to a close on December 5th with the intimate and aesthetically stunning documentary, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95,107,106,96],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-screenings","tag-fall-film-series","tag-emerson","tag-a-life-without-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4583,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.der.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}