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"Deaf Jam," Judy Lieff's 2011 documentary, is the kind of film Leslie Sullivan can't wait to share with an audience.

The story begins at Lexington School for the Deaf in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y., where poetry workshops were being led by world-renowned American Sign Language storytellers and poets Peter Cook and Manny Hernandez.

Introduced to ASL Poetry through the school, Aneta Brodski, an Israeli immigrant high school student living in New York, dives into the three-dimensional art form where body movements convey meaning. Rhymes are measured in hand shapes and meter in movements.

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