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It produced several feature and short films targeting the deaf and hard of hearing communities. The deaf founders, Chad W. Taylor and Wayne Betts, Jr . established Mosdeux in January 2005 to bring the cinematic perspective to the deaf community with stories originating from the deaf community.
This Close began as Fridays, Stern and Feldman's Kickstarter web series, [1] and then premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival's Episodic Showcase as The Chances.It was Sundance Now's first straight-to-series order, [2] and centers on two deaf best friends navigating their twenties in Los Angeles.
An American documentary film about two brothers, one Deaf and one hearing, and their families. The Deaf brother has a deaf wife and daughter; while he despises cochlear implants, his daughter wants one. The hearing brother has a hearing wife and a deaf baby. The film explores the impact of cochlear implants with regard to Deaf Culture. [33] [93]
SuperDeafy is about a deaf superhero who gets into comical situations with a police officer. Jacob identifies with SuperDeafy because he, too, is deaf; he fantasizes about being a superhero and surmounting his problems via imagined superpowers. Tony Kane plays SuperDeafy in the TV program and is deaf in real life.
A positive attitude toward deafness is also expected within the Deaf community. In Deaf culture, deafness is not considered a condition that needs to be fixed (see Medical model of disability). ASL also holds great importance to the Deaf community and its identity: it represents the liberation of language minority, oppressed for many years by ...
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“Companies like this are really important as they create job opportunities for the deaf community that we wouldn’t normally have,” the 21-year-old, who is based in Croydon, south London, said.
The deaf brother has a deaf wife and a deaf daughter. While he opposes cochlear implants, his daughter wants one. The hearing brother has a hearing wife, and the couple have a deaf baby for whom they explore the option of cochlear implants. The film explores the relationship between the culturally deaf community and cochlear implants.