Skyline’s third annual Museum of Tolerance (M.O.T.) Film Festival is coming up on Oct. 18; at 12 p.m. this year’s title is “Diverse-Ability: Culture and Community.”This is Skyline’s third film festival sponsored by the M.O.T. Alumni and the Disabled Students Program and funded by the President’s Innovation Fund. This year’s films are looking at the hearing-impaired community.”There is a very fierce debate in the deaf community about whether that’s an appropriate thing to do and how it affects people’s identity within the deaf community,” said Daley. Who went on to add that the deaf community sees itself as a unique culture with their own history and language. They fear that people who get these implants will lose the closeness of the community and culture. The first film, Sound and Fury, was nominated for an Oscar in 2001. It deals with the debate over cochlear implants, which according to Barbara Daley, a member of the M.O.T Alumni group, is a device that is surgically implanted and restores partial hearing to the deaf. The film looks into the life of two brothers. One who is married to a deaf wife and the other who is married to a wife who can hear. Each of them has deaf children, one of whom wants to get their child an implant. The other however, does not. The second film is a follow-up to this and looks at the family six years later. Because the Main Theater was not equipped with the necessary items to close-caption the film and present it in a way that would be able to reach more audiences new equipment had to be bought. There will be a question and answer period after the film open to students and faculity alike. The panel will be made up of Linda Van Sciver a DSPS counselor, Jeremy Francisco who has had the cochlear implant and Sui Yuen the American Sign Language instructor at Skyline College who is also deaf. Accompanying the panelists will be an American Sign Language interpreter for any of those in the audience who are hearing-impaired. The films and the discussion panel will be held on Oct. 18 in the Main Theater at 12:30 p.m.