Zeinabu irene Davis’ “Compensation” premiered at film festivals 25 years ago, but only now is it receiving theatrical distribution from Janus Films. Its big-screen debut comes in tandem with its ...

Open captioning will now be available during select showtimes at 240 AMC theatres in more than 100 U.S. markets, the company announced in a press release Friday. "By adding open captions to the ...

SEATTLE — The new year brings good news for those who love movies but are deaf or hard of hearing: Enacted Jan. 1, a new state law will increase the number of movie screenings using open captions, and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Movie theaters will be required to offer more screenings with open captions starting tomorrow. Large movie theaters must have at least one open-captioned showing during peak hours.

I was eight when I first saw an open-captioned movie in a theater. It was 1997, the animated musical Anastasia. I was thrilled. I’m deaf, and though the Americans With Disabilities Act had been passed ...

Leila Hanaumi, an American Sign Language performer in the "Barbie" ASL cut, poses with a large Barbie box at Regency Westwood Village Theater in Westwood, during a special open-caption screening on ...

Karen Quinones, the deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Deaf, DeafBlind, & Hard of Hearing, used to have a hard time when she went to the movies. As a deaf person, she was sometimes forced to use ...

Jul. 28—Last year, Sarah Clark and her dad bought tickets to see Disney's "Strange World" at Warehouse Cinemas Frederick. They were promised that the showing would include open captions — which ...

Watch how a restoration of the silent film-inspired “Compensation” was rejuvenated by an innovative use of new technology. But for Davis, the biggest improvement stemmed from what open-caption ...