American Diversity And Design Project ARC Film Festival

ARC 211 – Project 2: D+D Film Festival

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Description of your film festival that includes a discussion about how your two films are related to one another. This description will go into the news release about the festival. (Minimum 300 – maximum 400 words):
The films A Quiet Place (2018) and There Will Be Blood (2007) significantly prove the essence of using disabled actors and actresses to take scenes that require portrayal of actor disability. Both films give authentic pictures and depictions of deaf actors holding significant roles in their respective roles. In A Quiet Place (2018), fearsome extra-terrestrial creatures invade earth and, without an ability to see, invade and kill people and animals by sensing their sound. The Abbotts, a family of five, struggles to survive, communicating using sign language to avoid making voices that would alert the alien creatures. Beau, one of the two sons in the family, is killed by the creature after a sound from a toy exposes his location while the head home. After successfully surviving for one year, the creatures finally locate the hideout of the family, where have been hiding in an isolated farm. American Sign Language predominantly features in the film, where Millicent Simmonds, a deaf actress, is featured as Regan, the daughter in the family.
There Will Be Blood (2007) is a film that captures life in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The film has diverse crucial themes, including greed, capitalism, religion, and oil drilling business. The film depicts the greedy Daniel Plainview, whose business ventures are depicted as ruthless, unkind, and opportunistic. His activities in the old business leave his worker dead, making him adopt the worker’s orphaned son. The son, later named H.W., is later portrayed in the film by Russell Harvard, a real-life deaf actor. The greed and capitalist nature depicted in the film result in several killings. Both films share a connection between disability and design. The communication design is demonstrated when the filmmakers use the American Sign Language to enable dialogue and communication between the actors. The use of sign language in both cases simplifies communication challenges that face deaf people when they attempt to communicate with people without the condition.

Film #1

Title: A Quiet Place (2018)

Source link for the film trailer (IMDB, link to YouTube trailer, etc.): 
/title/tt6644200/

Year produced: 2018

Director: John Krasinski

Type of film (feature, documentary, short film, animation, etc.):
 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film

Running length: 1hour 30minutes

Brief synopsis (if copied, cite source) (minimum 150 – maximum 250 words):
A Quiet Place is a film that depicts a post-apocalyptic world where a family, the Abbotts, are forced to remain in silence in order to live safely, avoiding the wrath of alien creatures, with ultra-sensitive hearing abilities. The film starts off with the devastation that has lasted for nearly 90 days killing both animals and humans on earth. The devastation is caused by sightless alien creatures. The alien creatures have hypersen...