One of the most heartwarming moments at this year's Sundance Film Festival is the Q-and-A after every screening of Irene Taylor Brodsky's documentary "Hear and Now," when the filmmaker brings her parents down front with her.

Paul and Sally Taylor were deaf from birth, and when both were 65 they opted to have cochlear implants put into their heads so they could hear. Their daughter's movie details their lives as deaf people, their surgeries, and the struggles they faced hearing sounds for the first time in their lives.

The Taylors were wearing the outer equipment that makes their cochlear implants work at Thursday morning's screening, and Brodsky said they both wear them most of the time - though Dad wears his more than Mom wears hers. Paul Taylor said he will sometimes take his off when he's tired, "especially if there are babies in the house."

With or without the implant, Sally Taylor is enjoying Sundance. "Mom sees up to three movies a day," Brodsky said, "thanks to the international programming and the subtitles."