'Deaf President Now!' Review

This crowd-pleasing documentary from Davis Guggenheim and Nyle DiMarco chronicles the weeklong effort in 1988 to finally have a Deaf person appointed as the head of a university for Deaf students.

Dubbing ASL rather than captioning signers in a documentary seems like the wrong choice, but it worked for Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, and now it’s allowed and effective in Deaf President Now!, which is directed by Deaf actor-turned-filmmaker Nyle DiMarco and Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). Like Me…