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What people are saying…
This beautifully successful plea for the inclusive arts movement is strongly recommended for collections serving special populations and those in the arts. Difficult to forget, it should offer inspiration for parents and teachers of special needs children.
– Library Journal, August 2011
This film is so awesome that I’M speechless!
- Gene Cleveland, Peterborough, NC
You have created a poignant movie that will touch the lives of everyone who sees it. I left the screening with a renewed sense of gratefulness. The courage of the people in the movie who experience gives a new meaning to listening has changed my life forever. The Sounds of silence have never been heard more loudly than in this inspirational work of art.
- Nancy Fudge, Green Cover Springs, FL
I can’t shake the sense that seeing this film shifted something deep inside me. It is an important work and I am better for having seen it. Thank you.
- Chris, Durham, NC
I have watched many ‘expanding inclusive arts’ efforts come about over the years, yet it seems that the glue to really getting it off the ground this time was the showing of the documentary and the community dialogue and events that followed. I was very glad to be a part of this.
- Roxann Colwell, Family Support Network of Western North Carolina
A surprising, beautifully made, heartfelt story. This film takes the life of a person some would over look and lifts it up in a simple and elegant film. I highly recommend this to teachers, administrators, and people working in the arts. Parents and family members will see their own journey reflected in this well crafted film.
- Alice Elliott, director “The Collector of Bedford Street”
A beautiful, graceful and tremendously powerful film.
- Harlan Gradin, North Carolina Humanities Council
A New Kind of Listening shows that any form of expression, no matter how arduous or limited, can make a remarkable difference to the lives of people without speech.
- Rosemary Crossley, A.M., Ph.D.
And from others who have attended recent events…
A luminous film
Beautiful and thought provoking
Moving and inspiring
One of the most profound works of art I have ever encountered
