Coming Out
Edited to update the correct link for the video above - as explained by Charlie Swinbourne on his YouTube page for the above video: “Sorry to anyone who has been looking for this film, it was removed due to a techical errror and had to be reposted - it had 12,090 views on it’s previous posting.”
Taken from YouTube directly:
Description:
A son comes to his mother with a compelling secret. Will she understand?
A quirky comedy written by Charlie Swinbourne and directed by Louis Neethling (who also directed BBC2’s ‘Switch’). The film was made for the London Deaf Film Festival and premiered in January 2007. It stars David Hay, Debbie Norman and Ilan Dwek.
The film has so far played at film festivals over the world and went on to win the prestigious Clin d’Oleil European Video award in Rheims, France last summer. Made in association with AC2.com and the British Deaf Association.
To find out more about Louis Neethling’s films, yuo can visit the website for Mutt and Jeff Pictures: http://www.muttandjeffpictures.com/
This satire video is THE BEST! I uproared with loudest laughter ever! I even cried from laughing so hard. It is so clever and smartest screen writing I’ve ever seen for a long, long time!
Thank u sooo much for sharing this with all of us.
Warmest,
Amy
Greeting from New York. Than you so much for havinf English-subtitle on the short film, Coming Out. It was really funny, very creative and thrilling! I really like the idea of the movie like someone breaks her/his virgin about curiosity of sex. The film is about curiosity of deafness! Really thrilling! We are from Mosdeux Production, United States, used to produce several short films for USA and commercials for deaf communities. You can google out with the production’s name.
Please keep me posted about your next film or any news relating to film festivals and awards.
Congratulation if your work is part of the movie or Mutt & Jeff’s team.
Leon Lim
Now, that made my week! Thanks for sharing this!
Oh, this was wonderful! What a funny story and great similarity to hidden topics!
Very well done!
~ LaRonda
http://www.earofmyheart.com
That was an extraordinary film! I had goose bumps and I was crying and laughing!!!!!!
IT SO TRUE!!!!!!
I loved the way it was presented!!
BRAVO!!!!
An incredibly beautiful story with a twist of irony! Bravo…bravo…bravo **hands waving**
~Ginny
Guys/Ladies/Something else
Thanks for your comments - I’ll make sure that they get passed onto the folks that made the movie as mentioned in the text.
Cheers
Simply the BEST!
What an O. Henry ending! Delicious satire on the “coming out” experience! Love it, love it!
My, this is the BEST! Didn’t expected the confess was about deafness, thought for the other thing, so twisty!
An excellent movie! this is facts about hearing parents thought a deaf child can understand them,but it is NOT! That is an excellent example for deaf culture to educate the hearing parents!
Super Thumb-Up.
Thanks.
this film is very interesting and I think come out is a perfect example. Thank you for showing this film and Hope to see your next film maybe?
I laughed so HARD I pee’d my pants. I actually thot it would be a Gay thing, but……Deaf?!?!?! LOLOLOLOL
Creative man! wow!
Brilliant!
peace
pdurr
I loved this video! So creative and very funny but oh so true! Thanks for sharing it!
Hmm … interesting to see Deafread bias yet again! I had blogged about this 2 days before (Charlie sent me the link direct), yet it was labelled as a text link, and as a result attracted little visits (sure it attracted British visitors, they don’t come from Deafread). The result, smaller international commentary.
Another failing, and moderators influencing an aggregator not the other way around.
I agree with Alison’s comment above - Charlie Swinbourne had asked Alison directly if she could post about it and she did that.
I’m puzzled that despite her post being approved, it’s listed as “text only”? The video is there too.
Perhaps something for DeafRead to look into then to allow more flexiblity in their catagories - ie if a post show a video, then it should show that it’s a vlog.
This would allow Charlie Swinbourne a chance to see all the positive comments and to respond to them.
Cheers
I’m so close to asking DeafRead to withdraw my blogs, because quite frankly I’ve had enough. I’m sick to death of US dominance, and the way its operated smacks of arrogance.
Today they put a post from Jen on Learn to Sign Week and See Hear in the Extra section. Both extremely important right now on a national scale. Its from their equiv. of NAD, its around BSL recognition, and there’s major policy trends BBC wise.
I can’t be arsed with this crap anymore, and in fact an insult to other countries. The fact we go along with it smacks of old colony days, and bowing down to oppression.
Try adding this link to http://www.deafVIDEO.tv and see what happens
The key is to use the word “Deaf” in the first two or three sentences of the blog, and a sentence detailing how it relates to the deaf reader. I had a couple of blogs bounced to Extra because it wasn’t immediately obvious that it had useful or uniquely Deaf information.
If a vlog, include a short word description as above…for example, this one could be titled: “Deaf son coming out to his hearing mother.”
@ Dianrez - thanks for your tip. However, in this instance Deaf was mentioned. The thing is, none of the moderators are outside North America, and show very little awareness of international issues.
To USA this Jen’s post today was around audism, coming from the BBC, a flagship prog set up by Paddy Ladd is to be watered down to make it more “hearing attractive”. We’ve posted on this over months. The second point, Learn to Sign week, is a major campaign by the BDA, and relates to BSL recognition / promotion as a language. Several events are happening through the UK this week.
Its not the first time its happened, e.g. DeafRead will post stuff relating to the ADA, but won’t do so for the DDA. We’re also trying to run a campaign to get back into the legal status of BSL right now, via visual media … all this usually ends up in Extra. Quite frankly it shows little awareness of other cultures, or perhaps highlights you cannot understand another culture unless you’re inside it.
I don’t want to tolerate this kind of oppression, or participate in it … hence I’m extremely close to pulling all my blogs.
Contacting DeafRead, you don’t get a reply and have to resort to complaining in public to get noticed. With feedback, you get the defence, our Editors are human. Sure, but this doesn’t take responsibility for what’s happening, and an examination as to how things can be improved. If you pulled the same excuse in work, you’d be disciplined and/or formal complaints from your customers. In other words you would be pulled up on it.
As an aggregator, it makes its money by depending on other people’s contents i.e. blogs, without that then they cannot attract advertising or sponsorship. Bottom line, bloggers are their customers, yet I’m not sure if this is fully grasped.
There’s another point I could home in on here, in that this aggregator influences content, rather than individual blogs shaping this through collectivism. This approach goes totally against what blogging is about in the mainstream, and worries me greatly. Where there’s mechanisms for rating e.g. Digg, even Technorati rankings, this is done by the blogging equiv. of market forces, not 4-5 people.
As it stands, very few British people I know read DR anyway, as its too American. Half our day is over by the time the States wakes up … it gets moderated in the afternoon / evening, when we’ve all gone home for the day. That issue might be more acute for those living in countries further east.
@Dianrez - then what’s the point of having “human editors” - the stuff you mention is something I would do for an automated service not for a human filtered service.
So are they just not bothering to read anything and thus it means many good posting are being missed out?
And it have been suggested many times in the past - they need international editors - they said it would happen. I don’t see it happening so far.
Like Alison, I’m more likely going to withdraw my blog too because DeafRead have too much of an “American = World” focus. Instead I’ve been encouraging British deaf bloggers instead to look at http://deafuk.org - no moderation and not bother with DeafRead.
It was a nice idea when it started shame it doesn’t work internationally. The Internet is not America. It’s international and that’s what DeafRead need to wake up to. Or make it clear it’s US only.
Allison,
I am fully aware that there are others like yourself who are not in favor of our model of information dissemination. First of all, there is no conspiracy brewing inside DeafRead to take over the world and control everyone. We are simply providing a useful service to others. Our model is just another addition to all the possible information dissemination methods that anyone can use such as search engine, personal RSS aggregations, bookmarking, etc. We are offering another way for v/bloggers to reach out to a group of readers who would more likely be appreciative of their posts.
I want you to clearly understand that DeafRead is the last place you’ll find oppression, especially against our own group of Deaf people.
We cannot censor or hide information, nor do we attempt to. We know that our readers will call us on that. DeafRead Extra is where you find all the other posts by the bloggers so we give access to all the posts.
While we give many posts the fast track to the front page, we also empower our readers to tell us which Extra posts should be put on the front page by voting.
I think the editor’s judgment on the vast majority of the posts were carried out well. We WILL make mistakes and errors now and then. That is a fact of life when you are dealing with a site like DeafRead which involves so many humans with unique personalities. There is NO way we will ever be perfect, period.
I, for one, would not work for a business where perfection was expected at every turn. This business would lose all the good people and eventually fail. Any business must be able to take risks and find ways to improve and succeed in an imperfect world where imperfect decisions have to be made.
As for international v/bloggers, at this time, I still think we do a good job of moderating for Deaf-related issues. Could it be better? of course! We are working on DeafRead International where we will have international editors focusing on v/blog posts from their respective countries.
Until that becomes a reality, we are doing the best with our current (limited) resources.
Jared, thank you for your comments. One question, how can you proclaim this:
“I want you to clearly understand that DeafRead is the last place you’ll find oppression, especially against our own group of Deaf people.”
if you’re not an international reader? Your perspective is limited to USA by virtue you live there, and your own window on the world will back this up.
By dismissing an international perspective, and saying we don’t do such a thing … is putting international perspective down and their opinion. This is oppressive in its own right and comes across as arrogant.
Its not just me who’s saying it. :-/ Right now, several people will say that DeafRead is being oppressive: listen and learn from it. Don’t dismiss it, belittle it, or put other perspectives down … otherwise you’ll just get people’s backs up, and with that they will walk.
I too posted about Learn to Sign Week and it got shoved to Deaf read extra.
This would interest 3 countries England,Wales and Scotland international readers, but alas if its not interesting for the Americans then they *assume* it wont interest international readers.. DOH!
Jared
Why not just make life easier and have one aggregator that feeds the whole world? Instead of all this segmentation, which results in the same kind of posts getting approved, all sorts of ridiculous catgeorisations, no awareness of news outside your borders, and the approval of some crap like MM’s blog [in spite of your insistence on quality].
DeafRead is a paternalistic model. Sorry but it is. While you have an editorial policy that is too restrictive, and human editors, you are perpetuating this world of Deafness that is obsessed with such a narrow band of issues.
We give the same treatment to international bloggers as is accorded to the American bloggers. We approve and skip blog posts for the same reasons.
DeafRead has no bearing on the type of content Deaf v/bloggers produce. They all are free to write about whatever their heart desires. This is plainly seen in Extra or if you subscribe directly to the blogs. Four of my last blog posts have been put in Extra. I don’t mind that because I don’t care if anyone from DeafRead comes to read them. Those posts were just something I wanted to share with the world at large and I was not aiming for the DeafReaders.
Frankly, I find your attitude towards Americans discriminatory, especially when we are not all the same. There are many Deaf Americans who have a worldly knowledge by being immersed in different cultures around the world. We are sensitive towards others with different cultural values and beliefs and keep an eye on the international scene. Not all of us are narrow-minded Americans who think that God prefers this country above all the others in this world.
Of course, I find it interesting that we have put many British posts up on DeafRead and sent much traffic to your blogs, yet this isn’t mentioned in the comments and instead, all I see is complains and criticism. Who is being oppressive here?
Jared, you are missing the point. The fact that DeafRead has an editorial policy and a suite of HUMAN editors, has a big influence on the content that is shown on DeafRead.
I do understand your viewpoint [s], but the fact of the matter is, everytime I go to DeafRead to see what’s new… it’s all the same. Every post has the word DEAF or ASL in it. Almost as if we would negate our deafness if we don’t mention these two words.
Your own editorial policy narrows the definition of what constitutes deaf interest, etc. That pisses me off. It gets worse when visitors to DeafRead view crap like MM’s blog, and he makes comments, to which we cannot effectively and publicly rebutt because my own blog won;t pass the DeafRead editorial policy on a number of points.
DeafRead is not a blog aggregator. By having an editorial policy and editors, DeafRead is effectively a publisher.
Jared can you explain why something important trying to get people to be aware its Learn to Sign week in the UK?
Deaf Read is not making anybody aware as 2 people blogged about this.
I would like to post if its a success or not at work , tv etc.. but it will get put on Deaf Read extra no success in Deaf Read I may add!
Can you explain why it won’t appeal to Deaf Read Readers ?
Typically, when a post doesn’t have much information and isn’t descriptive enough, we move it to Extra. The more information there is, the better for everyone else, and the higher chance it’ll get the fast track to the front page.
Your post about how successful the UK Learn to Sign week was should be approved on DeafRead if we come across it. It’ll fit within our guidelines for the front page.
You can add my email jnevans@gmail.com or get in touch with us thru the DeafRead contact link if you want to clear up a few things with us directly.
Jared, you prove my point that DeafRead is a publisher not blog aggregator.
Jared - I do not see how I am discriminating against all Americans by stating that you cannot understand or speak for us, or even judge our experiences. Those are our experiences alone, and don’t dismiss them. No matter how much you might observe another culture, you’d never fully get it.
As Paddy Ladd said last year at the time of tent cities, only the Irish can understand Irish experience, and they are best placed to judge this. Those on the outside cannot.
Even Raymond Luczak gets it with his new Eyes of Desire 2:
http://www.handtype.com/books/eod2/clips.html
“Which meant that Americans could speak for those in Europe, Africa and elsewhere? No impossible. Impossible.”
Likewise, DeafRead cannot speak for international people nor judge these people from the experiences they are having with the current set up. To do so is oppressive in itself.
Alison:
While I’m not going to jump in the middle of the discussion about DeafRead.com, I do want to thank you for understanding what I’m trying to do with EYES OF DESIRE 2: A DEAF GLBT READER. Spending five weeks in the UK in the summer of 2005 was eye-opening, and I’ve come to love BSL. I do want to come back and brush up on my rusty BSL one day soon!
I’m flattered that you chose to quote me.
Thanks.
Raymond Luczak
Colonialism??? Alison, that’s IRONIC coming from a Brit!!!
Brit - hmm. I’m Welsh and live in Wales. First country to be taken over by the English (before every other one), and still feel it today. My ancestors were oppressed including ironically language (illegal to use their own language, language banned in Education, belittled, imprisoned etc. Remind you of something?)
Wales has no history of invading or attacking any country.
Whatever, the wider context of history, I fail to see what this has to do with Deafread, and its effects on communities outside the States.