
Irene Taylor Brodsky
2021Hear and Now
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky aims her camera at her own life to capture the remarkable transformation of her deaf parents, who decided to undergo a life-changing procedure to restore their hearing after spending 65 years in silence. Chronicling her parents' experiences over their first year of having sound in their lives, Brodsky tells a deeply personal tale that moved viewers to bestow it with the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2007.
Hear and Now
Open Your Eyes
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Living under the Himalayan sun, their eyes have slowly gone milky white. Manisara and Durga have cataracts, and their mountain home in Nepal has become a warren of darkness. Shot over three days, Open Your Eyes follows their extraordinary journey down the mountain for a chance to see again.
Open Your Eyes
Saving Pelican 895
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Michael Carloss, Jay Holcomb
HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.
Saving Pelican 895
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Irene Taylor Brodsky, Jonas Brodsky
A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
One Last Hug
Irene Taylor Brodsky
"One Last Hug" chronicles a three day summer camp for children learning to cope with the death of a loved one. With the guidance of trained professionals, grieving children as young as seven years old learn that their feelings are normal, and that by talking about them they can begin to heal. A testament to the healing power of shared sorrow, One Last Hug shows the often-unseen and particular experience of children's grief.
One Last Hug
Beware the Slenderman
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Richard Dawkins
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
Beware the Slenderman
Untitled Celine Dion Documentary
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Céline Dion
Conceived with the full participation and support of Celine Dion, the film will retrace the incredible life story of the Canadian singer and the accomplishments of her career, including iconic album releases, awards and honors, world tours and residences in Las Vegas.
Untitled Celine Dion Documentary
Homeless: The Soundtrack
Irene Taylor Brodsky
After being taken away from her parents as a baby by the state and given up for adoption, musician "Cami" Jenni Alpert went searching for her birth father. She finally finds him: homeless, toothless, addicted. And a musician, just like her.
Homeless: The Soundtrack