Ko Lwin, now in his 30s and running a printing company in Mandalay. He no longer competes but he calls himself a “skate developer”. Ko Lwin negotiates with sponsors, organises competitions and coordinates social work, including a training program with the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf that led to one of its students appearing on ‘Myanmar’s Got Talent’... Read More: http://frontiermyanmar.net/the-fraternity-of-the-bridge
VIDEO [CC] 'The Silent Heroes' official trailer - A Story of 13 Real Deaf Children and their Dreams, Courage and Passion.
NEW DELHI -- THE SILENT HEROES is world's first film with Real DEAF actors and is perhaps the first attempt by a film maker to create story with these special children as Heroes and not as sympathy seeking individuals.
This is an adventurous-emotional story of 13 REAL Deaf children on a Himalayan mission, their struggle for survival, their courage and their heroism.
Mahesh Bhatt, Kamal Biran, Mates Entertainment and 13 Deaf Kids.
The 26-year-old model becomes the second male winner of the series - following Keith Carlos, who won cycle 21 - and the only Deaf contestant to compete on the reality competition show. He’s also the final model to land on top after creator and host Tyra Banks announced the series’ cancellation midway through the cycle.
From the beginning of cycle 22, the judges - Banks, Kelly Cutrone, and J. Alexander -- and other contestants made a big deal about his hearing, but being Deaf didn’t seem to be a disadvantage. In fact, DiMarco said it helped him in the competition.
I am.... AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL! & THE LAST WINNER & WHO HAPPENS TO BE DEAF! Thank you @tyra and #ANTM for giving me voice!!!
“The biggest advantage of me being Deaf is that my language requires me to move my body,” DiMarco told Entertainment Tonight in September, “so it's easy for me to show movement in my body and brings the best of me in photographs.”
DiMarco quickly became a fan favorite thanks to his washboard abs, piercing blue eyes and charming persona. But he also delivered fierce photos each week, winning two elimination challenges and only landing in the bottom two once.
While the competition itself may be over, DiMarco’s career is just beginning. The budding model told Entertainment Tonight that he hopes to become the next male supermodel and to create an equal space for men in the modeling world.
“America's Next Top Model changed my life because I am more aware of the modeling world and I have a great network now,” he said of the experience, adding: “I have even more fans than I did before.”
You can check out more about DiMarco in ET’s exclusive interview with him. Check back next week when we sit down with the big winner to catch up on everything that’s been going on since the competition aired.
About America’s Next Top Model - Cycle 22 of America’s Next Top Model, hosted by Tyra Banks, will feature the third “Guys and Girls” edition. Selected men and women living under one roof will battle it out to earn the prestigious title of America’s Next Top Model.
VIDEO [CC] - AT&T Feel The Music 'Subway Serenade' Different Colors by Walk The Moon by AT&T.
AT&T Feel the Music is an innovative, social project designed to expand musical access to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community - helping them celebrate, experience and share in their love of music.
The cast of "Subway Serenade" features several actors who are appearing in Deaf West Theater's current production of "Spring Awakening" opening September 27th on Broadway. The video was fully-choreographed and shot in one continuous take. Source
VIDEO: #DeafTalent - Campaign: Hollywood, stop hiring hearing actors for Deaf roles. Deaf people have the right to represent themselves!
As a result of this #DeafTalent campaign, the world will have a much better understanding of the Deaf community’s standpoint on not allowing Deaf roles to be given out to hearing people. Many people do not realize that they have been oppressing Deaf actors for many years now.
We hope that this new awareness will also create many more job opportunities for Deaf people all over, both in front and behind the camera, as well as other places. We believe that this campaign will ignite many new discussions and ideas and help cause a shift in societal awareness.
Huffington Post - The #DeafTalent hashtag began making waves after a NY Daily News interview with Catalina Sandino Moreno raised red flags in the Deaf community. Moreno, a hearing actress, was cast to play a Deaf woman in the leading role of her new film Medeas. But in the NYDN interview, it became clear that Moreno has had very little exposure to deafness or Deaf culture.
VIDEO [CC] - Inspiring Deaf contestant leaves the Italia's Got Talent judges in emotional tears goes viral.
Martina Giammarini, 24 year old from Ladispoli, Italy, presented on the stage of Italia's Got Talent with a difference that left the judges shocked - is a Deaf dancer.
Giammarini performing dance from feeling the musical vibrations to deliver an inspiring the judges - actor Claudio Bisio, actress and comedian Luciana Littizzetto, singer Nina Zilli and YouTube star Frank Matano in emotional tears. One of the judges says "the most inspiration and emotional performances ever on television."
Factoid about feel/hear the musical vibrations - Scans show that Deaf people ‘hear’ vibrations in the part of the brain where sounds are processed. The world of music is not closed if you suffer hearing loss. Many Deaf people still attend concerts and even become performers. How can this be? Researchers at the University of Washington have uncovered an important clue... Read more Deaf People Can ‘Hear’ Music.
VIDEO: A Russian Deaf Short Film - Lugansk 'Anyone Cheating Will Be Revealed'
The video producer by Deaf Russian actor and director, Yuri Goryansky shares the short comedy film "Anyone cheating will be revealed" on social media for the Deaf community.
In honor of the musical’s big night, Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson created this sketch. The portrait includes Austin P. McKenzie as Melchior, Daniel N. Durant as Moritz, Sandra Mae Frank as Wendla, and the key supporting cast including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin as a variety of adult characters, along with Broadway.com
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf gay actor co-creates and stars, Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern in new the webseries 'Fridays'
Fridays is a web series about best friends Kate and Michael, who live in Los Angeles and have just undergone huge life changes: Kate is newly married and Michael is newly single.
The main characters are Deaf and communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), with subtitles for people who don’t know sign language. Kate and Michael are two Deaf people who live in a hearing world, to comic, tragic, painfully funny, and joyous results.
Whether it is issues of love, money, or ordering a latte at Starbucks, Kate and Michael are two people you've never quite met before, and you'll love getting to know them. Stars and co-creators Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman are DEAF. They also wrote and directed the pilot... Read more: https://kickstarter.com/projects/fridays-the-web-series
Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman on the film "Thank You / Bloopers."
In 2002, he participated in theater in Toulouse, France, a city where he settled. In 2009, want a role of a killer sunglasses in a miniseries Terror in Toulouse by Julien Bourges. The same year, the letter from a short film La Mer, praised in many festivals organized by the Deaf people.
After filming The Portrait of Alex Sambe in 2010, he left Toulouse to live in Paris for the benefit of its participation in Chaptal theater, the famous International Visual Theatre (IVT) in Paris. The pseudonym Gaël Aguilera is known for his comedies of manners in which he play different roles as well.
VIDEO: In Rehearsal With Deaf West's Broadway Spring Awakening.
NEW YORK CITY - You may think you know Spring Awakening, but you've never seen or heard it like this. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony-winning musical returns to Broadway in the hands of the famed Deaf West Theatre in a brand-new production featuring a young cast of Deaf and Hearing actors performing the show simultaneously in English and American Sign Language.
The results will not only blow your mind, but are sure to provide an even more emotionally overwhelming experience than you ever expected.
VIDEO [CC] - They may not be able to hear, but Deaf people still take great pleasure from music.
The Daily Beast - As Justin Jones entered a Rockaway-bound subway train on Tuesday night, there was an unusually vibrant scene: as a speaker blared the heavy beats to one of summer’s catchiest pop songs, a group of teens and young adults danced, laughed and sang--or rather, signed--their hearts out.
This enthusiastic group wasn’t disrupting the daily commutes of New York residents to raise money. The actors, who were mostly Deaf, were helping a young girl become comfortable with who she was.
A camera panned each of their faces. The director yelled, “Cut!”
Justin was standing on the platform of a once-abandoned station in Downtown Brooklyn that had been converted into the New York Transit Museum in 1976 while simultaneously offering a filming location for Hollywood blockbusters.
The cast of Spring Awakening, which is returning to Broadway with the help of Deaf West Theater--who produce their shows in American Sign Language (ASL)-- translated the lyrics of Walk the Moon’s “Different Colors” for viewers who have lost the ability to hear.
VIDEO: Even though our reality is full of individuals who are Deaf/HoH, only a handful of this population has been given an opportunity to join the cast of a reality TV show.
Huffington Post by Lydia Callis - Cycle 22 of America's Next Top Model premiered last week and one contestant, Nyle DiMarco, really captured viewers' attention. Not only is he charming and, as Tyra Banks herself said, "finneeeee. DiMarco is the very first Deaf contestant to compete on ANTM, and he quickly became a fan favorite.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive audience reaction, it's worth asking the question once again: Why don't we see more #DeafTalent representation in mainstream media?
According to a 2005 Gallaudet University survey, approximately 13 percent of U.S. citizens are Deaf/HoH -- which is roughly one out of every eight people. Even though our reality is full of individuals who are Deaf/HoH, only a handful of this population has been given an opportunity to join the cast of a reality TV show. They don't fit into the "reality" that producers are trying to create, and that is a shame for all of us.
Geagea says the idea for” Mother Tongue” came when he thought of “mixing contemporary ballet with expressionism and sign language.” This was his first step in taking the essence of dance being a form of communication to a whole new level.
The 34-year-old, who was born Deaf, spent his childhood unable to hear or speak. In his mid-teens, after strenuous effort and endless sessions of speech therapy, he learned to read lips. Donating to Pierre Geagea’s fundraising campaign site: Projects Mothertongue
Geagea says that dance helped him communicate when he lacked the ability to speak. “When I was around 10,” Geagea told Beirut.com, “I didn’t know much about dance but I used to love Michael Jackson”.
Ko Lwin, now in his 30s and running a printing company in Mandalay. He no longer competes but he calls himself a “skate developer”. Ko Lwin negotiates with sponsors, organises competitions and coordinates social work, including a training program with the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf that led to one of its students appearing on ‘Myanmar’s Got Talent’... Read More: http://frontiermyanmar.net/the-fraternity-of-the-bridge
