Director Rob Savage Talks 'Dawn of the Deaf'

VIDEO: Deaf News: Exclusive interview with director of 'Dawn of the Deaf' Rob Savage, talks the Deaf role in short horror film.



LONDON, UK -- ComingSoon: Director Rob Savage discusses his innovative new apocalyptic short horror film Dawn of the Deaf. Fresh off a triumphant, head-turning premiere at Fantastic Fest, the spectacularly inventive, gorgeously executed Dawn of the Deaf logline.



“When a strange sound wipes out the Hearing population, a small group of Deaf people must band together to survive” threatens to go ultra-viral via upcoming screenings at BFI London Film Festival, London Fright Fest, Sitges Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival and several others.

“Our aim was to create a genre film that would connect Deaf and hearing audiences in an engaging, thrilling way,” director Rob Savage tells ComingSoon.net of his apocalyptic horror short made with a cast drawn from the London Deaf community. “Rather than retread the same narratives usually seen when dealing with disability, we wanted to create a tense story in which the characters’ ‘disability’ becomes their ultimate advantage over the hearing population.”



Savage was gracious enough to speak with ComingSoon.net at length about the joys and challenges of leading that charge… Read More The Full Interview.



Follow @Dawn of the Deaf:

Facebook - https://facebook.com/dawnofthedeafshort

Twitter - https://twitter.com/dotdmovie

Official Website - http://www.dawnofthedeafmovie.com



Related Posts:

#Deaf Film - #Deaf Movie - #ASL Film - #Deaf Movie Trailer

'The Tribe' Became 2015's Most Intense Film

VIDEO: Rolling Stone - How sign language thriller 'The Tribe' became 2015's most intense film.

RollingStone - Inside story on Ukrainian drama about gangs in a school for the Deaf that's left audiences speechless. It was only 100 feet away, but it may as well have been another universe. As a child growing up in Ukraine, filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy would walk to his classes every morning and observe the students who attended the school for the Deaf across the street. As his classmates socialized with each other, the director would watch the other children from afar, fascinated by the sight of dozens of kids silently signing with each other.

"This way of communication looked like a miracle," Slaboshpytskiy says, calling from his home in Kiev. "People were directly exchanging feelings and emotions without words and it really impressed me."



The 40-year-old filmmaker channeled those vivid memories into The Tribe, his brutal, bewildering debut feature centered on a Ukrainian Boarding School for the Deaf, in a tale told entirely through sign language. The unique, unflinching thriller focuses on the school's teenage gang members who rob, rape and murder under the tutelage of a corrupt woodshop teacher. After one of the students - a pimp who oversees two teenage prostitutes from the school - is killed, new kid on campus Sergey (Grigoriy Fesenko) takes his place; problems arise when he falls in love with Anna (Yana Novikova), one of the escorts. (Coming full circle, Slaboshpytskiy used his actual elementary school as the film's main location.)



With no subtitles, translations or voiceovers to guide viewers, the film - which opens June 17 in New York - unravels like a puzzle, as certain plot points, stripped of initial comprehension, only reveal themselves in subsequent scenes... Read more: rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-sign-language-thriller-the-tribe-became-2015-s-most-intense-film



Follow 'The Tribe' Movie:

The Tribe - IMDb - http://imdb.com/title/thetribe

Facebook - https://facebook.com/filmtribe



Order Movies & DVDs:

The Tribe - ComingSoon.net

The Tribe (2015) - Rotten Tomatoes



Related Articles:

The Tribe Review – Deaf-School Drama is Shocking, Violent and Unique

The Tribe | Film Review | Slant Magazine

TIFF.net | The Tribe

Has The Tribe Changed What A Deaf Film Can Be?

'The Tribe' ('Plemya'): Cannes Review

“This Film Is A Big Deal.” Ted Evans on The Tribe

Ukrainian Silent Film The Tribe Set For Distribution

No More Savagery, Please: A Deaf Person's Review Of The Film The Tribe

The Tribe (2014 film) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Related Post:

Deaf Film 'The Tribe' Official Trailer

Deaf Cinemagoers 'The Tribe' Reviewed

'The Tribe' Became 2015's Most Intense Film