Wednesday 25 May 2011

New Deaf Film Rated A Hit

A new film by deaf scriptwriter Charlie Swinbourne and Director William Mager has caused a stir in the deaf and hearing communities and on Twitter in the last few days.

My Song, which tells the story of a 17 year old deaf girl agonisingly caught between the Deaf and hearing worlds, was premiered at the Deaffest film and television festival on Friday, shown on Film4 on Monday and has been widely acclaimed as a hit with 4000 YouTube hits since the weekend.

My Song challenges attitudes towards oral deaf people from within the signing Deaf community. It also highlights issues about parental or community acceptance of a young person's emerging deaf identity. An identity that seems determined to come to prominence after a mainstream education with exclusively hearing friends and oral parenting (from a stressed out single mum).

You can follow writer Charlie Swinbourne on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/charlie_swin

Enjoy..



1 comment:

  1. OMG! It felt so like that I was there in that film, as so many people do expect me to be able to cope as a normal hearing person amongst them and yet it is so hard and tiring to concentrate on lip-reading all the time. Maybe I should take up signing? Sally Hogan

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