Loud Love

Format: Feature
Sub-Format: Documentary
Genre: Coming of Age, Family, Gay, Human Rights
Production stage: Post-production
Countries of Origin: United States of America
Countries of Filming: United States of America
Film languages: American Sign Language, English
Estimated Production Date: 2020-05-01
Team Leader: Bing Wang
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Basic info

Logline

"LOUD Love" is a tender probe into gay deaf parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles.

Story

Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan and Brian finally brought their hearing twin babies home from India to New York. However, their journey through fatherhood meets new challenges when the increasingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. "LOUD Love" is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles.

More about this project

I hope “Loud Love” can demystify how deaf people live their lives—they are far from silent but very loudly buzz, pop and roar, and the fundamental basis of communication is not sound, but connection. I also wish to challenge the very limiting norms of parenting so that the society as a whole can recognize many types of personhood and parenthood.

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Team Members

Bing Wang

A documentary filmmaker and a Brooklyn transplant by way of his native China, Bing Wang adores cinéma vérité and loves to investigate family, communication and identity topics. His feature debut, “The Ability Exchange” (2016), acclaimed as “a one-man band empathy engine” by Indiewire, explores disability and inclusion in an intimate American colleg MORE