Salt Spring Film Festival

If you’ve ever made use of closed captioning on TV, you can thank Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin. After her groundbreaking performance in the 1986 film Children of a Lesser God, Matlin became a tireless champion of accessibility rights for the hearing-impaired. Directed by deaf filmmaker Shoshanna Stern, this immersive, crowd-pleasing film explores Matlin’s trailblazing career, including […]

  Celebrate International Women’s Day with The Circle Education Society & the Salt Spring Film Festival! After graduating from high school in 2005, Maggie Doyne embarks on a gap year, where she meets Tope Malla, a now-grown Nepalese orphan caring for orphaned children. Pooling their resources, Maggie & Tope create the community-led nonprofit BlinkNow, establishing […]