At the Oscar Luncheon earlier this week, a young man sporting a gray suit and a dazzling smile rubbed shoulders with the likes of Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Jessica Chastain and Kristen Stewart.
Unlike those luminaries, Amaree McKenstry-Hall isn’t an actor, but he is a star — of an Oscar-nominated film. A nonfiction one.The Netflix short documentary Audible follows McKenstry-Hall during his senior year at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, MD.
Oscar-nominated director Matt Ogens, a Maryland native, had long wanted to make a film about the school, but it wasn’t until he met McKenstry-Hall that he finally found the perfect charismatic subject to build his film around.
McKenstry-Hall says he entertained some doubts initially about participating in the doc, conscious of how, in the age of social media, people can be picked apart.“Right now, in today’s world, you could be perceived as good or bad… but I try to keep it positive,” he says, his words communicated through an ASL interpreter. “Then I just said, ‘You know what?
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