MARLEE MATLIN: When I was first approached by PBS and American Masters and they wanted to do a biography of my life, I was open to the idea. I was honored. I thought, "Sure, and that it needs to ...

"This validates the fact that we deaf actors can work just like anybody else," Marlee Matlin said while accepting the award for CODA Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Kino Lorber has picked up U.S. rights to Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, a documentary on trailblazing Deaf Oscar winner Marlee Matlin that premiered at this year’a Sundance Film Festival.