The word disability skews the gaze Thoughts on the experience of creating Ecuador´s Deaf Film Festival

Abstract

This article tells the story of how I came to discover Deaf Film and how this experience paved the way for Ecuador´s first Deaf Film Festival. Aside from all the positive outcomes, we constantly encountered several barriers that kept the hearing from enjoying Deaf culture. Reducing deaf people into the category of disability is a failure that drives cultural loss for both parties.