My Song

2011, 30 minutes

A thought-provoking drama about a young deaf girl who learns sign language to try and find herself.

My Song is a thought-provoking drama about Ellen, a young Deaf girl who learns sign language to try and find herself. Left out among her hearing family and friends, she learns how to sign her favourite song with the aim of performing in front of a Deaf audience at a ‘sign song’ event in London. There, she discovers that her journey to the Deaf world might not be as straightforward as she thought. A film about Deaf identity that asks whether it is possible to escape being trapped in the no-man’s land between the Deaf and hearing worlds.

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