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In “Deaf President Now!” directors Nyle DiMarco and Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim recount eight tumultuous days in 1988 at ...
It’s not just a protest you’re watching in “ Deaf President Now !” It’s a revolution. One with civil rights implications for ...
Documentary looks back on the campaign to appoint the first deaf president of Gallaudet University.
Deaf President Now!” filmmakers say the new documentary about 1988 protests at Gallaudet University can inspire young people ...
It was over lunch in Nantucket that Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and Schmidt, the billionaire philanthropist, ...
It was spirited youth vs. old fuddy-duddies at the all-deaf Gallaudet University, where students demanded the school choose ...
A student protest at Gallaudet University forced out its newly appointed president 37 years ago. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Nyle DiMarco, co-director of the new documentary "Deaf President Now!" ...
Everyone, from Deaf people to hearing people to today's student protesters, ought to give "Deaf President Now!" a watch.
Co-directing alongside DiMarco is Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim, best known for "An Inconvenient Truth," "Waiting for 'Superman,'" "He Named Me Malala" and "Still: A Michael J. Fox ...
The documentary recalls the 1988 protests that erupted at Gallaudet University when trustees rejected deaf candidates to lead ...
Nyle DiMarco learned the story of the 1988 Deaf President Now protests at Gallaudet University when he was seven years old, ...