Hawkeye’s Co-Star gets her own spinoff series!
Back in 2021, Marvel’s series Hawkeye debuted a supporting superhero who is deaf and an amputee: Echo. In the TV miniseries, Echo is an indigenous young woman gifted with super strength and desire for vengeance. Now in 2024, her success working alongside the titular Hawkeye earned her own miniseries! Embracing Diversity on Screen In her […] More
Meet Fusao who owns his own restaurant in Japan!
Watch as Zion covers the menu’s variety of delicious fried fares in the video, including horse meat! The owner is Fusao, say hello if you see him in the izakaya. For your knowledge, in Japan Izakayas are the Western equivalent of a pub/tavern. Izakayas are places where you can go to get an alcoholic drink […] More
Shhhh….check out this knowledge!
The horror movie A Quiet Place is already a major success at the theaters and became the second top box office hit this year after Black Panther! The addition of a deaf character adds another layer of horror and makes effective use of American Sign Language as a plot/coping device, making A Quiet Place one of this year’s […] More
Three films nominated, two of them won
This year the first time that three films with sign language were nominated at the Academy Awards and two of them won- The Shape of Water and The Silent Child. Best Live Action Short Film – The Silent Child The Silent Child won Best Live Action Short Film and the Oscar was given to director […] More
This year’s sign language film has 13 nominations-the most ever of any film with Sign Language!
At this year’s Academy Awards, the dreamy film The Shape of Water with its 13 nominations has the highest number of nominations that any film with sign language has had in the history of the Academy! There have been winners and nominations with deaf characters and sign language since the Academy was established in 1928, only […] More
What is Light Flashes? Imagine it is the year 1993 and sitting in a theater with the lights dimming just a bit, increasing the anticipation of the show. The spotlight moves across the red curtains and one by one, the Deaf actors step onto the stage. The actors sign large and crisply, introducing their troupe […] More
The latest fairy tale love story may be Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece yet
December 7, 2017—Guillermo Del Toro’s latest fairy tale love story The Shape of Water will be released in theaters across the nation. The film takes place in Baltimore, Maryland during the 1960s Cold War and centers around a mute janitor who works at a high-security laboratory within the government. She uses sign language for communication […] More
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