AMNH Announces the Recipient of the 2012 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award

Two young people seated, one in the foreground and one in the background, in front of a textured wall.

Director Adam Isenberg received the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award at the 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival on Sunday, December 2, for his film A Life Without Words (Una Vida Sin Palabras), a story of two deaf siblings in rural Nicaragua living entirely without written, spoken, or signed language.