Premiering at Sundance, the film looks at the protests surrounding the hiring of a new president at Gallaudet University in 1988.

The passionate film depicts game-changing demonstrations at Gallaudet U. that argued the school had gone long enough without ...

selected a new president. The university’s board of trustees, composed mostly of hearing individuals, chose Elisabeth Zinser, an educator with a nursing background. Zinser had no connection to ...

The “now” in “Deaf President Now ... learning late on a Sunday that the board of trustees had selected Elisabeth Zinser from among three candidates (two of them deaf men) to lead the ...