The best sign language videos on the web
For deaf people, the rise of video-sharing websites like YouTube, has spearheaded a golden age for deaf films. From shorts to documentaries, home-made clips, video blogs and signed music videos - deaf people suddenly have more sign language content at our fingertips than ever before
Films made by the sign language community have been around for years, but while in the past they had a limited audience at 'special' film festivals, deaf filmmakers can now potentially take their work online to a much bigger audience.
. A year ago, I made a comedy sketch which we filmed in one day with no funding at all. After a premiere at a deaf film festival, I uploaded it to YouTube and posted the link on various deaf message boards - hoping for a couple of thousand views.
A year and 90,000 hits later, I'm gratified to tell you that one of the actors was recognised while on holiday in Australia. Through the net, the film had been distributed worldwide, at no cost - something that would have been inconceivable only five years ago when video sharing sites didn't even exist.
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