Hear & Now
Produced by Irene Taylor Brodsky, Crofton Diak & Eve Epstein. Edited by Irene Taylor Brodsky & Geof Bartz. Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky

Website:
www.vermilionpictures.com

Synopsis:
In this deeply personal memoir, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky documents her deaf parents' complex decision to leave their world of silence and undergo a dangerous surgery to get cochlear implants -- the only one of its kind that can restore a sense. At the age of 65, Paul and Sally Taylor decided they wanted to hear their first symphonies, hear their children's' voices, and talk on the phone. How will this operation transform them, their relationship with each other, and the deaf world they might leave behind? This is a story of two people taking a journey from silence to sound. The question is, what will they make of it, and what might they gain -- or lose -- forever?

Reviews:
Read the Variety Review

Awards:
2007 Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award

Film Festivals :
Sundance FF 2007
Ashland Film Festival
Hot Docs Toronto 2007