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RIT - NTID - NTID News - NTID Helps Host Deaf Rochester Film Festival
Plans are underway for the third Deaf Rochester Film Festival, March 26-29, 2009, with several events planned at the Robert F. Panara Theater at NTID.
Held every other year, the past two Deaf Rochester Film Festivals in 2005 and 2007 were very successful, with a mix of hearing and deaf audience members. Rochester's significant deaf population has a deep thirst and high appreciation for the quality of works of deaf filmmakers.
New this year is the Junior Deaf Rochester Film Festival, to help create a nurturing environment where deaf students in high school can showcase their works.
Other than NTID, other locations will be used during the festival include the George Eastman House and Little Theatre in Rochester.
Films shown during the festival are still being selected from many submissions; each will have a theme regarding deafness or be written or produced by deaf filmmakers.
Captions and interpreters will be available. With a theme, "Preserving History of Deaf Culture," festival organizers hope to show short home videos of deaf storytellers from the 1970s.
"Film making is relatively new. There has been drawing, dancing and writing over the centuries, but filmmaking has only been around for 100 years or so," said Festival Director Stacy Lawrence, of Pittsford. "What that means is deaf people have been deprived of opportunities to learn and make movies. But the truth is, deaf people have been actually making movies their whole lives, with their eyes and hands."
Visit the Deaf Rochester Film Festival Web site for updates, schedule and ticket information.
Plans are underway for the third Deaf Rochester Film Festival, March 26-29, 2009, with several events planned at the Robert F. Panara Theater at NTID.
Held every other year, the past two Deaf Rochester Film Festivals in 2005 and 2007 were very successful, with a mix of hearing and deaf audience members. Rochester's significant deaf population has a deep thirst and high appreciation for the quality of works of deaf filmmakers.
New this year is the Junior Deaf Rochester Film Festival, to help create a nurturing environment where deaf students in high school can showcase their works.
Other than NTID, other locations will be used during the festival include the George Eastman House and Little Theatre in Rochester.
Films shown during the festival are still being selected from many submissions; each will have a theme regarding deafness or be written or produced by deaf filmmakers.
Captions and interpreters will be available. With a theme, "Preserving History of Deaf Culture," festival organizers hope to show short home videos of deaf storytellers from the 1970s.
"Film making is relatively new. There has been drawing, dancing and writing over the centuries, but filmmaking has only been around for 100 years or so," said Festival Director Stacy Lawrence, of Pittsford. "What that means is deaf people have been deprived of opportunities to learn and make movies. But the truth is, deaf people have been actually making movies their whole lives, with their eyes and hands."
Visit the Deaf Rochester Film Festival Web site for updates, schedule and ticket information.