
More deaf creators are getting behind the camera and changing the industry
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Projects like "CODA, "Eternals" and "Only Murders in the Building" are among more recent productions incorporating deaf crew members into the filmmaking process from the very beginning -- changing onscreen portrayals as well.
The cozy sea-green space is where teenage Ruby, the sole hearing member of a deaf family, chides her parents for engaging in cacophonous intercourse while a crush is visiting. (Her position in the family gives the film its title -- it's the acronym for "child of deaf adults.") It's where the family argues over the fate of their fishing business. And at the film's end, it's where Ruby and her eager family gather to learn whether she's been accepted into music school.
When Alexandria Wailes and Anne Tomasetti, the film's directors of Artistic Sign Language (that is, deaf experts of American Sign Language who choreograph signing for screen and stage performances), and actress Marlee Matlin walked on set to shoot those scenes, they immediately started rearranging the room's furniture, Heder remembered.

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