Rachel Shenton
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A few years ago, Rachel Shenton had an idea for a film about a deaf girl born to a hearing family. She’d never written a screenplay before, but she put it to paper -- and ended up scraping together enough money to get it made.  What happened next took everyone by surprise. ------------- Links: Action on Hearing Loss www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk For more from Rachel: https://twitter.com/RachelShenton For Bryony's latest column: http://bit.ly/2TMy439
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