
ULTRATEC MINICOM WIKI SERIES
There is also a series of ASL interviews with students' reflections on ASL and NTID/RIT campus climate. In this collection are some of the educational videos Durr created for NTID/RIT, including Me Too, monologues on relationships and sexual violence. Topics on the recordings include ASL interviews, Deaf Artist Interviews, Online Deaf Art Center, and Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims (ASADV) videos. Patti Durr Deaf Media collection contains 27 VHS tapes, 3 DVCAM Tapes, 5 Mini DV Cassette Tapes, 5 Betacam Video Tapes. Durr also served as the artisitc director of the first Deaf Rochester Film Festival. In 1993, her play META, was produced by Lights On!. She served as artistic director for a few years. In 1992, Patti Durr helped found Lights On! Deaf Theatre which performs plays relating to the deaf experiece. Patti Durr is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culutral and Creative Students at NTID.
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10 DVDs added in 2014, presumably for 2013 festival, however unable to play them at time of accession.Īccession number(s): 07:21, 07:95, 08:22, 09:07, 09:27, 09:81, 11:15, 11:21, 14:029 Deaf Rochester Film Festival collection materials were gifted to the Deaf Studies Archive by Patti Durr and Joan Naturale.Ĭompact discs DVDs Posters Promotional materials Short filmsĭeaf actors Deaf artists Deaf culture Deafness - Drama Film festivals - New York (State) - Rochester Film posters There is a large amount of media as well, including DVDs, CDs, and DVD-cams. Promotional materials include posters and clothing (t-shirts, scarf), as well as publications such as postcards, programs, and brochures. The Deaf Rochester Film Festival collection contains a variety of formats documenting the festival from its inception in 2005 to 2011. Awards are bestowed by a panel of judges as well as the audience and include honors for animation, drama, documentary, student film, and short film. In 2009, DRFF partnered with the Rochester School for the Deaf and created the Junior Deaf Rochester Film Festival for Deaf and Hard of Hearing high school students. The mission of the festival is to: promote and showcase films by Deaf and Hard of Hearing filmmakers showcase films about the Deaf experience encourage analysis and interpretations of Deaf Cinema and Deaf visual aesthetics develop a deeper appreciation and understanding of the Deaf gaze in light of the diversity of genres, cultures, and styles of filmmaking foster film as a medium for historical preservation of Deaf Culture provide networking opportunities for Deaf and Hard of Hearing filmmakers and others involved in the field inspire future generations of Deaf and Hard of Hearing filmmakers By the second Festival in 2007, DRFF had formed a non-profit organization. In 2005, a small group of volunteers organized the first Deaf Rochester Film Festival (DRFF) in Rochester, New York.
