Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.
I Just Am Who I Am
Beth is a teacher, mother, and wife who lives a life a lot like yours but… she can’t hear. Though Beth has the same capabilities as any other person, other people often perceive her as disabled.
Director Megan Baxter has been interested in making movies even before she started high school.
“I’ve always loved sign language and in making this video, I loved having the opportunity to work with my sign language teacher to tell a part of her story,” said Megan. “The most challenging part of making this short documentary was trying to remember enough sign language to be able to ask the right questions and direct Beth throughout the video. We had to work together to go slowly and do our best to communicate with each other.”
In the last 2 years, her has really grown into a career – she’ll be attending Chapman University and majoring in Television and Broadcast Journalism in the fall.
“I made this movie because I realized that we often make judgments about a person, before we know them,” said Megan. “I wanted to show that people we may have judged… are a lot more similar to us than we originally thought. Through the process of making this video, I’ve learned more about the transformation and evolution of the original idea as it become something different.”
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