A Life Without Words (2011)
Una vida sin palabras
Dir.: Adam Isenberg
In rural Nicaragua, Dulce María (28) and her brother Francisco (22) are Deaf and know no language--spoken, written or signed--until Tomasa, a Deaf sign-language teacher working for a local NGO, arrives determined to teach them their first words.
71m, HD.
alifewithoutwords.com
Distributor:
Documentary Educational Resources (
der.org)
2012 MARGARET MEAD FILMMAKER AWARD
36th Margaret Mead Film Festival. New York.
PRIX DOCUMENTAIRE & PRIX LYCÉEN
24th Cinelatino International Film Festival. Toulouse, France.
SPECIAL MENTION - EMERGING INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER
Open City London Documentary Film Festival. London.
BEST FILM AWARD
CINEDEAF - Rome International Deaf Film Festival
GOLDEN HEART OF SLAVONIA
11th Heart of Slavonia International Ethnographic Film Festival. Đakovo, Croatia.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
12th Maine Deaf Film Festival. Portland.
