Disability Reframed: A Community Film Series
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Saturday, January 12, 2013
Location:
Citywide Senior Center
806 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
Neighborhood:
City Wide
Disability Reframed presents a FREE viewing of Children of a Lesser God, a love story about a speech teacher who falls for a beautiful yet distant deaf girl in a small New England school for the deaf, and the obstacles that they face due to their differences.
Directed by Randa Haines and starring William Hurt, this 1986 romantic drama is notable in that it marked the film debut for deaf actress Marlee Matlin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Only 21 years old at the time, Matlin is the youngest actress to receive the award and the only deaf Academy Award recipient in any category. An adaptation of Mark Medoff’s Tony award-winning stage play, Children of a Lesser God received praise from the Deaf community for its unusually realistic portrayal of conflicting ideologies on speech and deafness between two people in a romantic relationship.
This is a scent-free event. Out of consideration for people with environmental illness and/or multiple chemical sensitivity, please refrain from using perfume or other scented products. For sign language interpreters or other accommodations, please contact the Boston Commission for Persons with Disabilities by January 2 at 617.349.4692 (voice) or 617.492.0235 (TTY) or e-mail ccpd@cambridgema.gov.
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