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A film about a disc jockey who loses his hearing after decades of listening to pounding music kicks off a Toronto festival on deaf culture on Thursday, highlighting efforts to explain the deaf to a hearing world.
"It's All Gone Pete Tong" is a Canadian-British mockumentary. The film's title means "it's all gone wrong" in Cockney rhyming slang.
Catherine MacKinnon, a deaf filmmaker who graduated from Toronto's Ryerson University, said the Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival aims to provide a wider audience for films made by the deaf and hard of hearing.
"I feel the deaf should show their culture and usage of sign language in films, just like any other language," MacKinnon, the festival's director, said in an e-mail.
The four-day event boasts documentary, short and feature-length films from Canada, Europe, Japan, Britain and the United States.
The films are subtitled, some have sound and some feature both hearing and deaf artists. The only stipulation is that someone on the film production team be from within the deaf community.
Toronto already hosts a number of film festivals, including the major Toronto International Film Festival in September, a business-friendly gala that often provides the launching pad for Oscar nominated films.
A film about a disc jockey who loses his hearing after decades of listening to pounding music kicks off a Toronto festival on deaf culture on Thursday, highlighting efforts to explain the deaf to a hearing world.
"It's All Gone Pete Tong" is a Canadian-British mockumentary. The film's title means "it's all gone wrong" in Cockney rhyming slang.
Catherine MacKinnon, a deaf filmmaker who graduated from Toronto's Ryerson University, said the Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival aims to provide a wider audience for films made by the deaf and hard of hearing.
"I feel the deaf should show their culture and usage of sign language in films, just like any other language," MacKinnon, the festival's director, said in an e-mail.
The four-day event boasts documentary, short and feature-length films from Canada, Europe, Japan, Britain and the United States.
The films are subtitled, some have sound and some feature both hearing and deaf artists. The only stipulation is that someone on the film production team be from within the deaf community.
Toronto already hosts a number of film festivals, including the major Toronto International Film Festival in September, a business-friendly gala that often provides the launching pad for Oscar nominated films.