Film Festivals – and All Movie Theaters – Need Open Captions (Guest Column)

Filmmaker Alison O'Daniel explains why film festivals, and all movie theaters, need open captions

of closed-captioning at film festivals, and the long-overdue adoption of open captions for all movie theaters worldwide.,” a feature film playing in the Next section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It follows a specific and peculiar wave of crime in Southern California from 2011 to 2013. It is not a crime drama, but a film about listening,

Last year while I was editing, I finally felt comfortable enough to sit in a theater after being holed up inside during the pandemic. I honestly forgot that movies don’t play with open captions in theaters. Within the first three minutes of the movie, I was asleep. I watched the same film on my laptop with captions when it was available. and was riveted and wide awake. After 20-something years, I finally understood why I sleep through so many movies. I am d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing.

I am aways hesitant to complain about accessibility, but I am hyper aware of what disabled people have to deal with to gain that access. I carry a CaptiView into a theater and feel people look over as I adjust it. I leave screenings with a headache from looking back and forth between the device and the screen. adults in the United States has a disability.

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