Feeling Through

Feeling Through (2019)

A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

Date of release
2019-12-03
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (48)
Runtime
19m
Genres
Drama
Director
Doug Roland

Casting

Interesting facts

Feeling Through is a 2019 American short drama film directed by Doug Roland. It was nominated for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Actress Marlee Matlin serves as an executive producer.

Production

The short film grew from director Doug Roland's encounter with a deafblind man in New York City years earlier. The title of Feeling Through is a pun: It is a reference to the deafblind community, which is at the heart of the film, as members of that community navigate the world through touch, while the metaphorical meaning refers to the protagonist's personal journey of having to carefully learn how to open his heart without necessarily knowing h…

Realizing in that one interaction he went from seeing Artemio as his disability to seeing him as a friend inspired Roland to write the story for what eventually became Feeling Through.

Roland partnered with the Helen Keller National Center in order to make the film and cast a deafblind actor in a lead role, which is a first in film history.

Roland also shot a behind-the-scenes documentary along the way, called Connecting the Dots, which follows the process of casting and working with the deafblind actor Robert Tarango, who also works at the kitchen of the Helen Keller Center, as well as their year-long search to find the real life Artemio.

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