Feature Stream: ASL - Learn Deaf Culture. History, & CODA

"Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL etiquette and how to properly communicate with people of the Deaf Community. Storytelling, builds narrative skills appropriate for all new learners. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of each lesson and each topic revolves around sharing information about our environment and day to day life. 

Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. Students will learn conversational strategies to help maintain a conversation along with interaction activities allowing students to rehearse what they’ve learned in each lesson. This series is an easy-to-learn, step-by-step approach complete with drills and practice exercises to increase signing ability and understanding. Featuring ASL teacher and interpreter Clarissa Story and deaf student Rachel signing in her own words teaching conversation skills on the subjects taught, after each lesson. 

In this program students will learn how to sign about deaf culture, history and CODA."

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Feature Stream: Artificial Intelligence

"Trace the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from simple calculating machines to computers that can vanquish chess masters. Learn the distinction between weak AI, such as a chess-playing machine, and strong AI, which is a machine that has a truly human-like mind. Question whether strong AI is even possible."

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Feature Stream: So Long, My Son

"Two families in China face upheaval over three decades of social, political and human upheaval in China. After a tragic loss, their paths diverge, and fortunes change. A quest for truth and reconciliation remains despite life's twists, and goodbyes take a lifetime."

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Feature Stream: The Queen of Ireland

 

"This documentary follows drag queen Panti Bliss, created by Rory O’Neill. Since the Pantigate scandal in 2014, Panti has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and her fight for equality has become recognized across the world.

Winner of Best Irish Film and Best Documentary at Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards. Official Selection at the European Film Festival"

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Feature Stream: Run Lola Run

 

"A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride, RUN LOLA RUN is the internationally acclaimed sensation about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She's just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences. Set to a throbbing techno score, "Lola's like a human stun gun!" Peter Rainer, New York Magazine."

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Feature Stream: Everything Everywhere All At Once

 

"When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through the multiverse."

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Feature Stream: Who We Are

"Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America."

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