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Davis Guggenheim Talks ‘Deaf President Now!’: ‘It’s an Injustice That the Story Has Not Been Told’
Davis Guggenheim talks about his documentary 'Deaf President Now!' about the 1988 protests at Gallaudet University.
For the documentary, DiMarco, a Deaf actor-advocate, and Guggenheim interviewed the four Gallaudet graduates – Greg Hlibok, Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, and Tim Rarus – who were responsible for organizing the week-long movement that consisted of rallies, boycotts and protests. But with countless hours of archival footage and the four movement organizers willing to sit down for interviews, DiMarco and King determined that the events were dramatic and compelling enough to make a documentary. Guggenheim: I would widen it out even further, and if you look at the protests on campuses all across the country last year, and the division and the violence, and actually the sides that are so inseparable and turned off to each other, this movie is even bigger than the story of Deaf culture.
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