Opportunity: Appear in new episodes of the Found documentaries

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Editor

Two new episodes of the Found documentaries are being planned, and the makers are looking for contributors!

The Found documentaries (which are directed by this site’s editor, Charlie Swinbourne), tell Deaf people’s stories of how they discovered the Deaf world for the first time.

Three episodes have previously been made – Found, Found in the UK and Found in Love, each shown on the BSL Zone and funded by British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust.

The team are looking for Deaf people who found the Deaf world at their local Deaf club, or by joining a Deaf sport.

If you are interested, email charlie@eyewitnessmedia.co.uk.

Watch Charlie’s signed video with subtitles below (or watch it directly on Facebook here).

The new episodes will be produced by Wellington Films and Eyewitness Media.

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Tim

October 26, 2017

‘…tell Deaf people’s stories of how they discovered the Deaf world for the first time.’

Deaf people discover the Deaf world the moment they are born deaf or become deaf.

Just like how black people become members of the black community or how gay people become members of the gay community.

Simple.

Editor

October 26, 2017

Not quite.

Note the use of the big D – this refers to discovering the Deaf culture, sign language and community.

If you are born into a hearing family, go to mainstream school, and so on, you may not discover that world until much later on. Not at birth.

Just like, in your analogy, being born black or gay would not introduce you to a sense of those communities, until you go out and encounter them.

Tim

October 27, 2017

‘Not quite’ in your opinion, and that’s fine. As a different profoundly Deaf sign-language using person, I have a different opinion and that is also fine.