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Sundance Jury Members Walk Out Over Closed Captioning Issues

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Over the past few years, it’s thankfully become more common to find screenings with closed captioning at your local multiplex.

Not just theaters that hand out closed captioning devices — which often require another layer of artifice between the audience and the movie — but actual onscreen captions.

And while you might assume that a major American festival like the Sundance Film Festival would be a trendsetter in this regard, it appears that the opposite is true — and that the issue of closed captioning has become a major controversy at this year’s screenings.

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