Flipboard Culture Desk<p>A new documentary, "Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore" traces the career of the Oscar-winning actor, activist and author. Director Shoshannah Stern knew it was important for hearing audiences to understand how Matlin experiences the world — both Stern and Matlin are Deaf. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@IndieWire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>IndieWire</span></a></span> talked to her and sound designer Bonnie Wild about how they achieved that. “Noise and sound are two different things. Sound is the process where there’s understanding of meaning, [while with] noise, there’s no meaning embedded in that. So when I use hearing aids, and Marlee uses hearing aids as well, I hear most things, right? But if I were to compare if it’s sound or noise, they become jumbled,” Stern explains. “People think that [hearing aids] fix the hearing loss, but it doesn’t fix the way the brain receives that information. So the brain still can’t quite process some of the sound that it’s receiving.”</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/kI0HX6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/kI0HX6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinema</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Documentary</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MarleeMatlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarleeMatlin</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deaf</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a></p>