A Window Into A World Without Speech | Whose Voice Is It Anyway by Kate Caryer | Random Acts

Подробнее о видео

Language some viewers may find offensive.

A darkly funny mockumentary about two identically ‘disabled’ forty-year-old women: Lottie and Charlie, who have athetoid cerebral palsy. Both celebrate their 40th birthday with family and friends, yet one is given the choice and the ability to communicate, and one is not.

This is Kate Caryer’s debut as a writer and director on film however she is well-versed in the world of performance arts. Kate Caryer is the founding member of the Unspoken Project CIC, she is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication, aka AAC user and has a BA Hons in Performing Arts: Community Development and an MA in Disability Studies and Special Education from the University of Leeds. At the 2014 Communication Matters, she won the Alan Martin Award for Contribution to the Arts, partly for her work for The Unspoken Project. Recent productions with the Unspoken Project include ‘Speechless the Musical’ and ‘The Voice Monologues’

Subscribe to Random Acts:

Thumbnail Image Description: In her living room Charlie a white disabled woman with short pink hair wearing a black t-shirt with the phrase, “Sarcasm loading… please wait” and trousers is dancing excitedly using her electric wheelchair. In the background there is a lava lamp, a TV, a plant, a giraffe carving and three posters with the following phrases, “Rights not charity,” “Music is my escape,” and “My house, my music!” On top of the image is the title of the file, ‘Whose Voice is it Anyway’ and the Random Acts logo on the bottom left.

#RandomActs #AllTogetherDifferent #AAC