Karen puts Yagoona on Australian Hear For You Film Festival map
YAGOONA’S Karen Nguyen, Samira Cox and India Cox are on top of the world after their entry, What Am I Missing, took out the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Hear For You Film Festival.
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YAGOONA’S Karen Nguyen, Samira Cox and India Cox are on top of the world after their entry, What Am I Missing, took out the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Hear For You Film Festival.
The competition was open for deaf or hard of hearing secondary school students to script, shoot and edit a film for entry into a nationwide competition.
The Bus Stop, by Raymond Moreno, Jared Donaldson, and Richard Moir, won the Best Film Award.
“Life is hard enough for teenagers and if you’re deaf it can be even harder,” says David Brady, CEO at Hear For You.
“Often we find deaf teenagers are isolated and don’t take part in activities such as filmmaking in school because they aren’t able to keep up with their hearing peers.
Programs such as this film festival help to validate the young deaf person’s worth, improve self-esteem, networks and provide ‘lived’ experiences that teenagers can relate to.”
The film festival was supported by Australian Hearing.
“Most of the deaf and hard of hearing teenagers Hear For You mentors and supports have also been supported by Australian Hearing since they were babies or young children,” says Alison King, Principal Audiologist for Paediatric Services, Australian Hearing.
“By working with Hear For You, together we can help teens develop important skills for life and to realise that their hearing loss need not be a barrier to doing what they want in life.”