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Tony and Derek go to the school for the event, however, Derek upstages Tony by making fun of Tony for being deaf in front of the whole school. This gives a poor image of deaf people, leading people to believe deaf people are a joke and dumb. After, Jenny confronts Derek in the school parking lot telling him how inappropriate his behavior was.
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Deaf cinema is a movement that includes all works produced and directed by deaf people or members of the deaf community and is led by deaf actors. All these works have a tendency to nurture and develop the culture's self image and to reflect correctly the core of the Deaf culture and language.
[3] [4] Members of the Deaf community tend to view deafness as a difference in human experience rather than a disability or disease. [5] [6] When used as a cultural label especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign.
The film was cited as a necessary look at the world of deaf performers. [5] [6]The film won awards at five film festivals (Newport Beach, Philadelphia International, Jury Award at the DC Deaf Film Festival Jury, World Deaf Cinema and Perspektiva Moscow Film Festival) was an Official Selection at dozens of other film festivals. [2]
One of the characters, Maya Lopez, also called Echo & Ronin, is deaf and as she gets older becomes a part of the Deaf community. Echo was born Deaf and uses ASL, Indian Sign Language, art and performance and lip-reading to communicate. 2003 Daredevil: Echo - Vision Quest Volume 2, # 51–55
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Sean Patrick Forbes (born February 5, 1982) is a Deaf American hip hop recording artist. [2]He is the co-founder of D-PAN, The Deaf Professional Arts Network, a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006 with a goal to make music more accessible to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community.