As her eleven-year-old son, Jonas, who lost his hearing as a toddler, struggles to master Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky explores her family's complex and changing relationship to sound – and to each other. An illuminating labor of love, Moonlight Sonata explores the complex nature of family, parenthood, and growing up through a lens that is both raw and heartfelt. Brodsky's parents, Paul and Sally Taylor were the subjects of her previous film, Hear and Now (08), a film that explored their lives as Deaf individuals, parents, and a married couple. The film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival as well as a Peabody Award. Now, Paul and Sally are happy to be a part of of the story of their daughter, Irene, and grandson, Jonas, who represent a new generation.
Director Biography
Irene Taylor Brodsky is a graduate of both NYU and Columbia University. Along with her work in documentary film, she has served as a director, producer, writer, editor and cinematographer. Her work has earned several honors, including an Academy Award nomination and Emmy win.
Press
"With great sensitivity and an eye for touching moments, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky again mines her family - and how it handles deafness - in [this] moving documentary" - The Movie Cricket
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