This Oscar winning short wanted to highlight the frustrations of deaf children regarding family members not wanting to learn sign language and schools not adapting sufficiently to meet the needs of deaf children.
Libby is a four year old girl who is about to start school. Her world is watching television and some lip reading, she cannot talk much.
A social worker works with the child and helps her to communicate by teaching her sign language. Libby blossoms under her.
Her well off parents do not bother to follow this up by learning it herself.
When Libby starts school she returns to her silent world as nothing has been put in place for her.
This low budget short is fantastically filmed. The story is bittersweet. I did think the social worker was a little too good to be true, an element of Mary Poppins about her. She was more like a nanny than social worker and she never lost her cool with the parents.
The parents were horrid. The mother was always rushing about which made me think who looked after Libby before the social worker was assigned.
It is hinted that the father was not Libby's real dad, something not pursued further in the drama.
Libby is a four year old girl who is about to start school. Her world is watching television and some lip reading, she cannot talk much.
A social worker works with the child and helps her to communicate by teaching her sign language. Libby blossoms under her.
Her well off parents do not bother to follow this up by learning it herself.
When Libby starts school she returns to her silent world as nothing has been put in place for her.
This low budget short is fantastically filmed. The story is bittersweet. I did think the social worker was a little too good to be true, an element of Mary Poppins about her. She was more like a nanny than social worker and she never lost her cool with the parents.
The parents were horrid. The mother was always rushing about which made me think who looked after Libby before the social worker was assigned.
It is hinted that the father was not Libby's real dad, something not pursued further in the drama.