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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.
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.
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]
"Deaf cinema" is a movement that dissociates from the "Cinema of the deaf". “The two are worlds apart" while the Cinema of the deaf is "a mainstream cinema in need of character types as grist for its mercantile mill", the Deaf Cinema is "an outsider cinema serving to nurture and develop a culture's self-image”.
Peter Wechsberg attended Gallaudet University and was in the inaugural troupe of the National Theater of the Deaf before going on to write and direct Deafula. [6] The film was an independent film created by the Deaf community for the Deaf community, and its original release was silent. [2] Deafula was shot in Portland, Oregon [1] [7] in black ...
In 2015, Frank acted in the role of Wendla in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening which included hearing and deaf actors, including Marlee Matlin. "(...) the young female protagonist, Wendla Bergmann, is played by the deaf Sandra Mae Frank, who uses sign language to deliver her lines" [8] Director Michael Arden said "Frank has developed Wendla into a character with more depth and ...
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Dummy is a 1979 American made-for-television docudrama film starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino. [1] Based on Ernest Tidyman's nonfiction book of the same name, the film dramatizes the life of Donald Lang (portrayed by Burton), an African–American deaf man who was acquitted of the murders of two prostitutes in Chicago, Illinois.