AppleTV+ Sets Spring Premiere For Documentary ‘Deaf President Now!’ – SXSW

The pic world premiered at Sundance and is currently playing at SXSW.

Deaf President Now! follows “the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard of” per its blurb. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob to change the course of history.

DiMarco told Deadline’s Matt Carey at Sundance, “The Deaf President Now protest was a part of a much larger movement that was very much spurred by the actions of the deaf community in placing a deaf president as the head of Gallaudet. Not only did we succeed, but this protest, in fact, gave rise to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects so many of us in the community and allows us access in our daily lives.”

AppleTV+’s previous Guggenheim docu, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie went on to win four Emmys including outstanding directing for a documentary, outstanding music composition for a documentary series or special, outstanding picture editing for a nonfiction program, as well as outstanding documentary or nonfiction special.

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