The movie, which won Best Picture, tells “disabled people [that they] should go and be with their kind,” one critic said. Warning: This article contains spoilers for “The Shape of Water.” Elsa Sjunneson-Henry was psyched when she heard about Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water.” As a speculative fiction author and editor who is legally blind […]
CHCH By Kyle Miller – December 22, 2017, 10:01 am Downsizing is a comedic drama directed and co-written by Alexander Payne (Nebraska). The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis, and Kristen Wiig. Chau earned a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance. DOWNSIZING IMAGINES […]
The film’s casting director and grown-up star, Julianne Moore, on the remarkable debut of Millicent Simmond by Lisa Liebman OCTOBER 20, 2017 10:00 AM At the heart of Todd Haynes’s sophisticated new family film, Wonderstruck, is the innocent curiosity of two intrepid 12-year-old deaf runaways. Based on the novel by Brian Selznick, Haynes’s visually arresting movie, which opens on Friday, interweaves the […]
September 10, 2017 by Giorgia Cantarin The worldwide premiere of Sign Gene directed and interpreted by Emilio Insolera, the talented Italian deaf director and producer, took place at Odeon Cinema in Milan on Friday 8th. As a lover of thrillers and sci-fi movie I can say grew up with various superheroes: Superman, Batman, X-Men and several others. […]
Edgar Wright had a very specific type of actor in mind when he penned the part of Joseph, the disabled foster father to Ansel Elgort’s getaway driver in the summer smash Baby Driver. “I wrote the character being 85, African American, and deaf,” Wright told Yahoo Movies. So the filmmaker tasked his casting director, Francine Maisler […]
Under mounting pressure from a wide variety of demographics who feel underrepresented in film and television, the entertainment industry is finally beginning to show signs of diversity. It is important to recognize that this gradual movement toward a multicultural media is only the result of long and tiresome grassroots efforts. The fight for representation… Read […]
I imagine you’ve forgotten about the woman who approached you just before Christmas, when you went to the cinema to see the latest film of the Star Wars saga; Rogue One. Just after you’d been grumpy at the man checking…Read more at http://limpingchicken.com/2017/01/10/bryony-parkes-an-open-letter-to-the-hearing-man-who-complained-about-subtitles-at-the-cinema/
THE WASHINGTON POST The current deaf staging of “Spring Awakening” on Broadway demonstrates that non-hearing actors are just as capable as the hearing. By Sandra Mae FrankSandra Mae Frank is an actress currently starring in “Spring Awakening” on Broadway.December 8, 2015 As a deaf actor, I’m always getting the same questions: What it is like to […]
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 4:10 PM PDT 5/11/2015 by Mike Barnes She guest-starred on a 1968 episode of the CBS crime drama ‘Mannix’ and helped pave the way for other hearing-impaired actors. Audree Norton, who many consider the first deaf actress to appear in a featured role on an American network TV series, has died. She was […]
SIGN LANGUAGE NYC – by Lydia Callis Over the past couple weeks, the #DeafT [Talent] movement spread like wildfire across social media. Using this hashtag, members of the Deaf community publicly spoke out against the cultural appropriation…Read more at: https://www.signlanguagenyc.com/category/deaf-actors/ Note: The title, hastag and link were originally published by the author/publication The title has […]
NEW YORK TIMES Phyllis Frelich, the actress who made a groundbreaking and Tony-winning Broadway star turn in 1980 in “Children of a Lesser…Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/arts/phyllis-frelich-deaf-activist-and-actress-dies-at-70.html
HUFFPOST – By Lydia Callis, Contributor Think about the last five movies you saw. Were there any deaf individuals in them? When was… Read more at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deaf-culture-in-hollywood_b_5056676?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEzvhdrTTOvDAOxtKx4iA0WjHFtUBHA_oyM2x0zYBJhVxgCc9C-agdfn6Q6aJ-w06-FmwWrSgTjPhJNlteJl4GFwBvZ2HaG7LL-Xmh9ynmnaoP3-mmtCJaCYeIxtYtsMxGHS9NFfrtFjTHOk_BCykveV84wWZQpWMGT7B29I76bK