Blue Ribbon Ceremony Video

“It is a good time to remind ourselves why Deaf people are here on Earth in the first place. The 13-minute video memorializes Deaf people who have suffered yet carried on our Sign Languages and Deafhood. Additionally, this video will inspire us to continue fighting for our Deaf children's human rights. The video is subtitled and was performed at the World Federation of the Deaf conference in 1999.”

dear hearing world

'Dear Hearing World' is a short film directed by Adam Docker, based on Raymond Antrobus’ poem by the same name. The film blends Raymond’s spoken words with music and deaf actress Vilma Jackson’s powerful and thought-provoking performance in British Sign Language with striking urban London scenes.

BSL presentation ‘This Crazy Life’ of poems by by Richard D France

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The End

Ted Evan’s hugely moving and highly creative work applies documentary aesthetics to speculative-fiction subject matter in order to chart the imagined decline of Deaf culture over four decades.

Lost Community

A short film by David Ellington about the closure of Bristol’s Deaf Club in 2013.

HOPE

Hope is a care-free, fun-loving Deaf teenager... but a fatal diagnosis is about to change everything.
Written by Lynn Stewart-Taylor and directed by David Ellington