Let Your Hands Do The Talking

About this Short Film

Let Your Hands Do The Talking, by Northern Support Services (Australia, 2019), appears in the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival. The short film explores themes including Auslan, cognitive processing disability, intellectual and sensory disability, young adulthood, group connection and achievement. It offers a respectful, human look at communication and the ways people share and publish their ideas. Gentle and hopeful in tone, the film complements the festival's aim to showcase the abilities, experiences and achievements of people with disability. Audiences will find a clear, life-affirming piece that highlights different ways of belonging and being heard.