06/25/2021
“The most crucial thing in this documentary project is to secure funds as early as possible to begin my first trip to Austin, Tx. There is a mainstream media company that is interested in publishing the documentary, so timing is critical to start.
Austin has the most prominent fully Deaf-owned industries in America, and it is one of the largest Deaf communities in the country. Austin will enable me to build connections and establish a pathway to successful Deaf individuals who are invisible to the mainstream world. It also will show the struggles and obstacles Deaf individuals face daily, greatly overlooked by others. It will begin the brick-laying of the documentary project, their silent voices heard, their ignored actions are seen, from all walks of life.
I have encountered many struggles and obstacles in my 41 years of being profoundly Deaf since birth while having some success, but I’m invisible to the majority because I am Deaf. This project will enable people to see a uniquely different world through the eyes of a Deaf photographer, an extraordinary world of the Deaf. Please consider making a solid contribution to my project and allow Deaf America to have its silent world be heard.”
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