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When venues ask the foundation what it actually costs to host a Deaf Santa Claus appearance, we don’t give them a marketing number. We give them this.

The documentary about Charles Graves wasn’t planned as a feature film. It became one as the story revealed itself. Here’s the short version of how it got made.

Charles Graves is the most visible Deaf Santa Claus working today. He’s also a husband, a father, a community member, and someone who pursued this work for years before any cameras showed up.

The foundation didn’t start as a grand plan. It started with a man who looked like Santa, a documentary crew, and a question: what would it take to make this last?

Holiday photos with a Deaf child can be wonderful or disastrous, depending mostly on whether the adults running the camera understand what the child needs.

Yes, Santa schools are real, they’ve existed for nearly 90 years, and what they teach is more substantive than you’d think.