Daniel J. Brown

This franchise is hugely disappointing. The first two films use sign lang + a Deaf lead to drive its plot yet has never advocated for Deaf audiences in its own releases. No descriptive subtitles, really? Just pure tokenism

Double use of “this”. Oh well, it’s late.

I’m script editor on this. It’s ace. Very proud of what we’re doing for Deaf representation on this.

@BMcranty @nikanareklawyks @TinyTimOReilly @MIMI_ZIMA Of course, but divorcing the original joke from its context is a form of joking that can be viewed as mean spirited and cruel. Which has happened in this instance.

@nikanareklawyks @HowlingFantods2 @TinyTimOReilly @MIMI_ZIMA Excellent explanation. 'When the joke leaves its target audience' is a kind of nightmare situation. It can get people killed, even. But what can we do about the humorless and cruel? Joking helps us survive.

@TinyTimOReilly @BMcranty @MIMI_ZIMA What’s funny about it? The tweet in of itself is an indication of the lack of progress we’ve made purely because it made no attempt to explain why it was singling that person out for “memefication”. How does a joke work if it requires multiple people swooping in to explain it?

@BMcranty @MIMI_ZIMA It’s funny bc the response to this commercial basically has shown that despite the progress it seems we’ve made, someone might not say something like the r word, but they’ll certainly think it. I’m glad you liked the commercial! It was sweet & evidently very needed hahaha

True Detective Night Country - it’s not about the investigation, but the cleaners we befriend on the journey 🥰

@kimmacaskill1 Their relatability with the characters and the interpersonal dynamics between them

@BFI @DisabledInTV @jackthorne Hm, this is a bit of a non-response, isn’t it? I have somewhat a rudimentary understanding of how distributors work. A film like The Killer would’ve had subtitles available for Venice courtesy of @NetflixUK. Saying there might be repeat screenings is exclusionary. @BFI

Hello Daniel, thank you for sharing this feedback - we've passed it on to the relevant team who will use it to inform future programming. Our current Festival policy is that descriptive subtitles screenings will be available for all repeat screenings, where they are available from rights-holders. Due to the nature of the Festival, this will mean some daytime screenings. If you wish to discuss further, please email customerfeedback@bfi.org.uk

I can’t believe I’m doing this again a year later and it’s compelled me to break my Twitter hiatus after a year (because this place is a hellpit). But @BFI, what are you doing putting captioned screenings of films like The Killer on a Friday afternoon?

@OwenJBaker @BFI Yes. A lot of deaf and disabled people have jobs.

I’m sorry, guys, I love film. I love LFF. I think the BFI is pretty ace (despite being pissed off right now), but this is pretty… bad... You could take some pointers from what the guys over at @DisabledInTV @jackthorne have been doing with the TV Access Project.

Oh, it gets worse, lmao. You’ve got a captioned screening of Saltburn on Thursday 5th October at 14.45 You can see Foe on Wednesday 11th October at 11.30 And so on… I have heard rumours of smart glasses, like the NT use, but, well, tech is fallible.

A future generation of TV industry people are going to start thinking that people are linking their X account at the end of emails.