“Jesus” retells the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ — all in American Sign Language. “Thelma” has good actors and some winning ideas, but it lacks a bit of grandmother’s common sense.

Actor Chris DeSouza, who was born and grew up in Santa Rosa, has a key role in an American Sign Language film about Jesus, which will be shown locally this week with subtitles. “Jesus: A Deaf Missions ...

A new movie from Deaf Missions tells the gospel story in American Sign Language. Subtitling is a kind of translation too. There are whole ministries devoted to dubbing and creating captions for Bible ...

There are about 120 to 150 movies that tell the story of Jesus, but a new groundbreaking film is opening his story cinematically to a new audience: the deaf community. The film was written by and for ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

A Council Bluffs-based Christian ministry called Deaf Missions is bringing the story of Jesus to the big screen as a feature film entirely in American Sign Language.