Shoshannah Stern has made history twice. Firstly, she is a Deaf director, finally able to call the shots in an industry that regularly chooses stereotype and cliché as opposed to breaking new ground.
Given how she made history as the first deaf person to win an Academy Award for acting, one might think the documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore would be something of a straightforward and ...
An outstanding comprehensive documentary portrait which has premiered at Sundance, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, directed by Shoshannah Stern, offers a magnificent volume of details about the ...
director Shoshannah Stern — also a deaf actress — plays back that easily YouTube-able acceptance speech from Matlin’s perspective. She cuts out the sound. Cheers become inaudible.