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Maine Deaf Film Festival
November 7, 2025 @ 10:00 am - November 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm EST
Flyer Image Description:
A colorful flyer for the Maine Deaf Film Festival 2025 with a warm cream background and golden border. The title running down side of flyer reads in rainbow colors: Maine Deaf Film Festival 2025.
At the top right, there are simple line drawinga of a red ASL handshape (‘sun’), blue swoosh (bird), brown garden with different ASL handshapes (for ‘bloom’ and ‘grow’), and trees with red mushrooms underneath (with ASL handshapes for ‘mushrooms’), with text above that reads: “We are all different flowers, together we create a beautiful garden.”
Event details:
• Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:30–8:30 PM — Reception at 4:30 PM, screening of Salt & Pepper at 5:30 PM.
• Saturday, November 8, 2025, 10:30 AM–7:00 PM — Discussion with filmmaker Julia Petersen about her film Thriving Together.
A circular photo of Julia Petersen (long gray hair, glasses, green shirt) shows her smiling outdoors with red rock cliffs and green trees in the background in bottom right of flyer.
Location: USM Portland Campus, Wishcamper Center Room 133, 34 Bedford Street, Portland, Maine.
Admission: $10 per day; free for children under 14 and USM students with ID.
Plus, Deaf ASL Social at Broadway Bowl after the festival.
At bottom of page, it reads Presented by USM ASL Club and shows the logo for University of Southern Maine Department of Linguistics.
Saturday November 8th:
10:00 AM: Doors open, light breakfast and coffee
10:30 AM: Welcoming Remarks, Sandra Wood and Roxanne Baker
10:45 AM: Thriving Together. Documentary. (USA)
12:35 PM: Film discussion led by filmmaker Julia Petersen
1:00 -1:30 PM: Lunch provided
1:30 PM: Dinner Table Syndrome. Drama. (USA)
1:45 PM: Serendipity by Sofia. Comedy. (Norway)
2:00 PM: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore. Documentary. (USA)
3:40 PM: Discussion led by Regan Thibodeau
4:00 PM: Break
4:10 PM: Power of Goodbye. Drama. (France)
4:35 PM: Contour. Drama/Comedy. (Content warning- sexual situation). (USA)
4:50 PM: A Love Letter to the Light. Experimental. (USA)
5:00 PM: Loud Love. Documentary. (USA)
6:20 PM: Discussion led by Amy Richardson and Josh Sheedy
6:45 PM: Festival Wrap-up
Flyer Image Description:
A colorful flyer for the Maine Deaf Film Festival 2025 with a warm cream background and golden border. The title running down side of flyer reads in rainbow colors: Maine Deaf Film Festival 2025.
At the top right, there are simple line drawinga of a red ASL handshape (‘sun’), blue swoosh (bird), brown garden with different ASL handshapes (for ‘bloom’ and ‘grow’), and trees with red mushrooms underneath (with ASL handshapes for ‘mushrooms’), with text above that reads: “We are all different flowers, together we create a beautiful garden.”
Event details:
• Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:30–8:30 PM — Reception at 4:30 PM, screening of Salt & Pepper at 5:30 PM.
• Saturday, November 8, 2025, 10:30 AM–7:00 PM — Discussion with filmmaker Julia Petersen about her film Thriving Together.
A circular photo of Julia Petersen (long gray hair, glasses, green shirt) shows her smiling outdoors with red rock cliffs and green trees in the background in bottom right of flyer.
Location: USM Portland Campus, Wishcamper Center Room 133, 34 Bedford Street, Portland, Maine.
Admission: $10 per day; free for children under 14 and USM students with ID.
Plus, Deaf ASL Social at Broadway Bowl after the festival.
At bottom of page, it reads Presented by USM ASL Club and shows the logo for University of Southern Maine Department of Linguistics.
Saturday November 8th:
10:00 AM: Doors open, light breakfast and coffee
10:30 AM: Welcoming Remarks, Sandra Wood and Roxanne Baker
10:45 AM: Thriving Together. Documentary. (USA)
12:35 PM: Film discussion led by filmmaker Julia Petersen
1:00 -1:30 PM: Lunch provided
1:30 PM: Dinner Table Syndrome. Drama. (USA)
1:45 PM: Serendipity by Sofia. Comedy. (Norway)
2:00 PM: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore. Documentary. (USA)
3:40 PM: Discussion led by Regan Thibodeau
4:00 PM: Break
4:10 PM: Power of Goodbye. Drama. (France)
4:35 PM: Contour. Drama/Comedy. (Content warning- sexual situation). (USA)
4:50 PM: A Love Letter to the Light. Experimental. (USA)
5:00 PM: Loud Love. Documentary. (USA)
6:20 PM: Discussion led by Amy Richardson and Josh Sheedy
6:45 PM: Festival Wrap-up