Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Deaf Black Filmmaker Breaks New Ground In Film


Zhane Rain — a hard-of-hearing, 18-year-old black girl growing up in New York City — has come to a crossroads in her life. After growing up in a family of mostly deaf people who prefer to keep to themselves, she wants to break ranks. Her mother wants her to go to a university for the deaf, and continue to live her life primarily among deaf people. But she wants to branch out into the world of the hearing as a student at a mainstream college. The college she selects will forever shape her life as a black woman.
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