Showing with open captions and audio description. The intro on May 1, and the intro and Q&A on May 3 will include ASL interpretation.
“Deaf people are not ready to function in a hearing world,” an interpreter signs to a mob of angry students. Jane Bassett Spilman, the former Chair of Gallaudet University’s Board of Trustees, denies saying this on the night in 1988 that a hearing person was appointed as the new president of Gallaudet, whose student body is almost entirely Deaf and hard-of-hearing. Nonetheless, it acted as the tipping point for a revolution. Deaf President Now! is a first-person account of the historical protests of the same name from the students-turned-organizers who came into their own and helped change the way the world saw the Deaf community, in turn advancing the disability rights movement. Co-directors Nyle DiMarco (executive producer, Audible, Hot Docs 2021) and Davis Guggenheim (director, STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Hot Docs 2023) deliver multisensory filmmaking that brings a unique and immersive experience to a history that bears repeating. Before “Nothing about us without us!” came “Deaf President Now!" Elspeth Arbow.
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Distributor: Apple TV+