SILENT ODYSSEY:
FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILM
ON FILIPINO DEAF CULTURE

Please come to the press preview of The First Feature-Length Documentary Film on Filipino Deaf Culture SILENT ODYSSEY by Miranamedina on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 3:30 p.m. at the PEN-International Multimedia Learning Center of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies (DLS-CSB SDEAS).

ABOUT THE FILM

SILENT ODYSSEY documents the journey of filmmaker Miranamedina with Deaf people by bringing to the hearing society the sentiments, history, language and culture of the Filipino Deaf.

With the persistence of negative stigma regarding Persons With Disabilities (PWD) and the myth that the Deaf are dumb, the call for an advocacy film for Deaf people becomes more urgent especially now that the Philippines ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities on April 15, 2008.

SILENT ODYSSEY features more than 40 members of the Filipino Deaf community, educators, missionaries and service providers to the Deaf with the special participation of Markku Jokinen, World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) President.

SILENT ODYSSEY (110 minutes, subtitles in English) is a production of Miryad Visyon in cooperation with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Lingap-Pangarap Foundation, Inc.