Sundance filmmaker Alison O'Daniel writes about the frustrating lack of access to captions at film festivals -- and all movie screenings.

Open captions, conversely, are permanently fixed and timed to a film and the images on the screen, harkening back to the inventions of early silent filmmakers.

A day after Sundance juror Marlee Matlin walked out of the premiere of “Magazine Dreams” in protest, along with the rest of the festival jury, the Oscar winner talked in-depth about the ...