Panel Discussion: Language Barriers in the Film Industry
This event is free - please pick up a ticket from Box Office.
Sat 4 Oct 1300 - 1430hrs Watershed Cinema 1

This panel discussion will provide an opportunity for film and TV practitioners to discuss the new wave of
Deaf filmmaking practice and explore the wider conflict between the fight for access to the 'mainstream'
hearing world and the desire to preserve and promote Deaf culture and language. Also expect a
selection of tasty samples of the feast in store over the weekend. Chaired by prolific Deaf director and
"VisionSign" representative Samuel Dore, guest speakers will include
Sherrie Eugene (freelance presenter/ reporter),
Alison Walsh (Channel 4 Disability Advisor),
Hilary Dunman (Resource Base),
and
Dr Paddy Ladd (Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol).

BSL Interpreters will be present.

Shorts: International (club)
Sat 4 Oct 1500 - 1600hrs Watershed Cinema 1
Fee: £4.00 full / £2.50 concessions

A visually dazzling selection of international shorts and quirky experimental work, some signed, some subtitled and some silent.

Programme:

Not the Usual Victim (Sofya Gollam 2002 Australia 7mins)
A dark & disturbing short containing a cruel twist of fate:
the tables are turned against a kidnapper as his victim uses her disadvantage to her advantage. (subtitled)

1968 (Nadja Schuett 2003 Ger 3mins)
NadjaÕs love for colour is expressed in the messiest way possible. (silent)

Pinky Juggler (Pinky Aiello 2002 USA 4mins)
Is it possible to sign whilst juggling? Through a montage of juggling performances Pinky tries to solve this riddle. (signed & subtitled)

Perfect Activity Leaves No Trace (Volz & Haude 2001 Ger 5mins)
Patience is rewarded with surprises in this simple yet highly effective one-shot short. (silent)

Egypt (Kathrin Resetarits 1996 Austria 10mins)
James Bond, a treasure hunt story, and Marilyn Monroe are enthusiastically expressed by Deaf children through Egyptian sign language (signed & non-subtitled)

Sid (Jeff Schner 1998 USA 3mins)
The ultimate relationship movie, this film will leave viewers all sentimental. (silent)

Protect Yourself (Ramon Woolfe / Andy Jones 2002 UK 5mins)
With dramatic editing, thumping drums, blunt lyrics and true African dancing & performing, the serious reality of AIDS is expressed brilliantly through music. (signed & subtitled)

Groei (Growth) (Hiddinga & Pot 2003 NL 5mins)
Poetry is brought to maximum impact with dialogue-free sign language. (signed & partly-subtitled)

(thanks to Matt Hulse, Deaf Focus Film Festival, Edinburgh, who originally programmed the selection, and will introduce the screening.)

DTS present: Finding Nemo Preview (U)

Fee: £4.00 full / £2.50 concessions.
Sat 4 Oct 1615 - 1800hrs Watershed Cinema 1
Dirs: Andrew Stanton/Lee Unkrich USA 2003 1hr 41mins
Voices: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe

The Academy Award-winning creators of "Toy Story", "A Bug's Life", and "Monsters, Inc." dive into a whole new world with this hilarious and endlessly inventive underwater adventure.
The film follows two fish - weak-finned Nemo and his fretful father, Marlin - who are separated when Nemo is snatched from the Great Barrier Reef and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney harbour.
The overly cautious father embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son. www.findingnemo.com
The film will be screened using descriptive captioning provided by "DTS", pioneers in the development of captioning and subtitling technology for film.
The screening will be introduced by DTS representative David Pope who will also be participating in the discussion "Think Tank: Digital Technology and Access".
(thanks to Buena Vista International)

Think Tank: Digital Technology and Access
This event is free Ð please pick up a ticket from Box Office.
Sat 4 Oct 1830 - 1930hrs Watershed Waterside 3

This event will provide an opportunity to examine practical ways in which the film and TV industry can use digital technology to improve access for Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences.
The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A, giving audiences an opportunity to voice opinions about new technology such as DTS captioning (used in the screening of "Finding Nemo") but also about whether or not increased access to the 'mainstream' hearing world of film is a positive step for Deaf audiences and filmmaking practice.
Speakers will include:
David Pope (DTS),
Clark Denmark from Bristol University's Centre of Deaf Studies
and the discussion will be chaired by Mark Cosgrove,
Watershed's Head of Exhibition.

BSL Interpreters will be present.

Silent River (club)
Sat 4 Oct 2030 - 2200hrs Watershed Cinema 1
Fee: £4.00 full / £2.50 concessions.
Dir: Ning Jingwu China 2001 1hr 30mins Subtitled

Beautifully shot with the same unique sensibility that pervades the films of compatriots Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, "Silent River" tells the poetic and lyrical tale of a group of deaf students and the friendship they form with their tutor in the search for personal happiness.

(thanks to: Embassy of the People's Republic of China)