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“Italian language is not just sonore. It is also a visual one.”

Transcript of Emilio Insolera on Sky Sport 24 (September 12, 2017)

“You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.”

Emilio Insolera

Transcript of Emilio Insolera on BBC Radio (October 9, 2017)

“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)

“From the director to the international cast, all of them are from deaf families for generations, while the film industry usually entrusts these roles to audacious interpreters that end up being bad imitators of the Sign language: as if an Italian actor was asked to act in Japanese by cracking down the tongue.”

Emilio Insolera

As quoted in Cinema. Quando il super eroe è sordo https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/sordo(September 10, 2017), Avvenire)

“I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language”

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in «Sign Gene», al cinema arrivano i supereroi sordi mutanti http://www.corriere.it/salute/disabilita/17_settembre_12/sign-gene-cinema-arrivano-supereroi-sordi-mutanti-92d2f6a2-97cb-11e7-8ca4-27e7bbee7bdd.shtml (September 12, 2017), Corriere della Sera)

“A proficient signer can see accents in any particular sign language, even between, say, the south or north of Italy. Any actor pretending to sign in a movie stands out as doing exactly that: pretending.”

Emilio Insolera

Source: As quoted in Emilio Insolera. The film director, visual community member and activist is a man on a mission. https://www.kansaiscene.com/2009/12/emilio-insolera/ (December 1, 2016), Kansai Scenel)