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| Welcome 2 My Deaf World |
| Australia, 2005, 60 min, in Auslan with English captions and voice-over. |
| Produced by Sally Ingleton, and Directed by Helen Gaynor with Bethany Rose and Scott Masterton. |
| Bethany Rose and Scott Masterson are schoolmates, a couple of energetic and charming teenagers who share three things - adolescence, school, and deafness. This film follows Bethany and Scott through the last few months of their schooling at the Victorian College for the Deaf (VCD), Australia's first school for deaf kids, and now the only place that teaches in sign language from Prep to Year 12.
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| Dormitory |
| United States, CSD-TV, 2002, 30 min., in American Sign Language. No audio. |
| Written, Produced and Directed by DJ Kurs, with Nathan Maffioli and Jeannette Duarte. |
| A look at life in a residential school dormitory featuring actual students. The film explores a series of what-if questions with the answers shown as alternate scenes centering around high school sophomore Dominic as he wonders what would happen if he lived in the dormitory with the rest of the students and fell in love with the popular girl. Filmed on location at the California School for the Deaf at Riverside.
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| No Talking Allowed |
| United States, CSD-TV, 2003, 45 min., in American Sign Language with English captions. No audio. |
| Produced by Yoon Lee and Directed by Yoon Lee and Matt Daigle, with Matt Daigle and Deb Skjeveland. |
| A romantic comedy featuring a frustrated painter and a struggling model striving for success in their careers. A Deaf painter, Alex, goes through several models before developing a requirement - No Talking Allowed - that he hopes will help him find one he can work with. A Deaf model, Rebecca, answers his advertisement. Filmed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. |
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Nathie: No Hand-Me-Downs |
| United States, Tactile Mind Press, 2005, excerpts totaling 17 min., in American Sign Language, with English captions and voice-over. |
| Produced by John Lee Clark, Directed by Raymond Luzcak , with Nathie Marbury. |
| Nathie Marbury was born the sixteenth of seventeen children to parents who didn't believe in education. Ironically, her deafness enabled her to earn a bachelor's and two masters' degrees. In this documentary, Nathie tells stories about her upbringing in Pittsburgh, where she "sang" in the church choir, and at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, where her white classmates actually tried to rub off her blackness. When she attended Gallaudet University, she tried out for the football team. |
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| Pinky Tells The Real Story - VideoPhones & Video Relay Service |
United States, 2006, 13 min. (of excerpts), in American Sign Language. No audio.
(Note that the full version of this DVD includes voice-over.) |
| Produced and Directed by Pinky Aiello |
| In a series of dramatized vignettes, Pinky Aiello - known as the First Deaf Woman Professional Juggler - explores the world of video relay interpreting from both the Deaf and interpreter perspectives, playing both roles in all scenes. Pinky Aiello created a special 13-minute edition of her DVD for this festival, containing eight of her vignettes: Not Contact Eyes; Right Back; Too Far; Who? Me? You?; Get Real Live Person; Too Close; Private; and Why Can't Deaf Interpreter? |
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| Tricks |
| United Kingdom, 2003, 10 min., in British Sign Language with English subtitles and voice-over.
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| Written, produced, and directed by Samuel Dore with Diana Martin and Giles Anderson. |
| Two worlds collide as an unattached sex junkie meets a call girl with a difference. |
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| Chronic Embarrassment |
| United Kingdom, 2001, 8 min., in British Sign Language with English captions. |
| Written, produced and directed by Samuel Dore with Ramon Woolfe, David Ellington and Simon Northam. |
| Three deaf clubbers share stories of their misadventures, shown in flashbacks, with the added bonus of a sting-in-the-tail ending. |
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| Not From Where I'm Standing |
| United Kingdom, 2004, 4 min., in British Sign Language with English captions and voice-over. |
| Written, Produced and directed by Samuel Dore and Jez Toogood with Peter Clifford and Hal Draper. |
| An interpreter voices for a Deaf man on film. It gets harder and harder and more and more embarrassing. |
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| Text, Batteries & Earwax |
| United Kingdom, 2003, 16 min., in British Sign Language with English captions. |
| Written, Produced and Directed by Jonathan and Michael Reid, with William Mager and Matt Kirby. |
| Twelve hours in the lives of Lenny and Steve, complete strangers who meet by chance at a railway station. They are opposites: Lenny is Deaf, ebullient, and a BSL user; Steve is partially hearing, considers himself a smooth operator and is proud of his oral skills. The drama focuses on the development of an unlikely friendship between them. |
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| The Last Deaf |
| Germany, 2001, 20 min., no dialogue. |
| Written, produced and directed by Reiner Mertz with Reiner Mertz and Jurgen Endress. |
| An apocalyptic vision of the future, The Last Deaf shows Ray (Reiner Mertz), a Deaf man, on a mission to discover why his identification documents have been denied within the new world order and why he is turned away by friends and society. What he discovers is that he is the last Deaf person on earth, fighting to save his life. |
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| Dis?Abled |
| United Kingdom, 2001, 10 min., in British Sign Language with English captions. |
| Written by Alison Lynch, Produced by Alix Middleton and Directed by Louis Neethling, with Bora Tukenmez and Diana Davies. |
| A Deaf man is challenged by his Deaf friends at party to answer the hypothetical question of whether he would choose to be hearing if he could. |
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| Stille Liebe (Secret Love) |
| Switzerland, 2001, 90 min., in French/German Sign Language with English captions. |
| Directed by Chrisoph Schaub with Emmanuelle Laborit and Lars Otterstedt. |
| In order work in a center for the homeless, Antonia, a young deaf nun, has to travel daily from her convent to the city by train. She meets Mikas, who, like herself, is also deaf. These two people, so different from each other, are able to converse in their common language - sign language. Antonia and Mikas fall in love. However, Antonia is not aware that Mikas is only pretending to be a circus artiste and has in fact come to Switzerland to work as a pickpocket. One of his victims catches Mikas, and while attempting to escape, Mikas loses his life. Antonia is left confused and disconsolate, yet at the same time she has the feeling that her own world has opened up. |
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| Reve de Clown (Dream of a Clown) |
| France, 2000, 6 min., no dialogue. |
| Produced and Directed by Levent Beskardes, with Levent Beskardes. |
| A deaf person dreams of a clown, a person that he has never seen. This film uses visual techniques to make the material accessible to Signing and non-Signing audiences alike. This is an example of Mr. Beskardes's "auto-film" work, in which he is actor, cameraman, director, editor and producer all at once.
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| Blue Gush |
| Japan, 1993, 3.5 min., in Japanese Sign Language. |
| Written, produced and directed by Robert Hoskin with Noboru Matsuda and Yasuko Tsuchiya. |
| A Deaf man and woman jump to conclusions about the identity of the person who dumps water on them. |
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| Motion of Confusion |
| Japan, 1996, 10.5 min., in Japanese Sign Language with English captions. |
| Written, Produced and Directed by Robert Hoskin with Yashushi Uehara and Tomoko Mori. |
| A Deaf man finds a phone card and has some fun with a pay phone. |
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| How Bugs Get Inside The Lights: A Set of Beliefs and Myths |
| Canada, 2005, 5 min., in American Sign Language with signboard. |
| Produced and Directed by Paul Filiatreault with students and faculty at the Alberta School for the Deaf. |
| A short film, exploring the origins of the dead insects found in light fixtures. |
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| Don't Mind |
| United States, 2005, 12 min., in American Sign Language with English captions. |
| Written and Produced by Patti Durr and Directed by Patti Durr and Elizabeth Sorkin, with Patrick Graybill and Kathleen Rozanski. |
| Bill is unexpectedly asked to baby-sit a neighbor's daughter. The child brings confusion and chaos into his life, and something more. |
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| The Booger Movie |
| United States, 2001, 1.25 min., in American Sign Language, with English captions. |
| Created by Joseph Josselyn. |
| A very short film showing the origin, brief history and probable fate of what must be the world's largest luminous booger. This film will probably be best appreciated by young boys. |
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| Fast Food |
| United States, 2001, 1.5 min., in American Sign Language. |
| Created by Eric Calbert and Joseph D. Josselyn, with Eric Calbert and Chris Preston. |
| A very short exploration of temporal potentialities and fast food. |
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| Help Me |
| United States, 12.5 min., in American Sign Language with English captions. |
| Produced and directed by Kamau Buchanan with Joshua Berman, Jeff Frederickson, Paul Kuplicki, Amanda Montgomery and Elizabeth Sorkin. |
| A short drama exploring the nature of reality. Filmed at the Rochester Institute of Technology. |
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