You are one of the hundreds of participants in this documentary.  You are celebrities - known and yet to be discovered.  You are actors, audence members and families.   You are generous people in the street who stopped to talk to me.  You are one of the 3,800 passengers aboard the Deaf Freedom Cruise - and the exceptional staff aboard the ship.  You come from all over the world, performing at the International Sign Language Theatre Festival and onboard the Deaf Freedom Cruise.  You come from small towns in Arizona and big cities like New York and Los Angeles.  You are seasoned entertainers and beginners with a dream.  You call yourselves deaf, Deaf, hearing, hard-of-hearing, CODAs, SODAs, KODAs, NERDAs, people with a hearing loss, hearing impaired, late deafened, parents of deaf children, interpreters and sign language challenged - but I call you inspirational, enlightening, talented, honest and insightful. 

You have opened your lives, shared your opinions and allowed me to tell the magnificent story of the incredible entertainers among us.  You have shared your laughter, tears, stories, gasps and surprise.

You are also one of the several crews that have worked on this film from all over the country.  I could not have done this without the extraordinary talent of the many camera crews, sound, editors, interpreters, assistants, interns and volunteers.  Some of you I never even met - having separate crews around the country filming performances that were happening simultaneously.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every one of you.

Photo by Robin Robin