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It has come to my attention that a few prominent members of the Deaf Community are making life uncomfortable for the deaf supporters and deaf filmmakers of the Matt Hamill Film Project. I'm asking you please, stop.

Having the courage to pursue a life in the arts can be hard enough. And I'm speaking as a hearing artist, let alone an artist who happens to be deaf. When the success rate of artists is less than 1%, and considering the turmoil that even that 1% has to endure before they're deemed as a success, I don't understand how anybody could think that making someone feel uncomfortable or unwelcome for simply following their dreams and seizing well deserved, creative experiences, is a positive thing.

Please, I ask you again, stop.

I don't know what I would do if my family or friends disowned me for following my chosen career path. It's because of their support that I have the strength to continue down this rocky road. They haven't always believed whole-heartedly in the projects that I've chosen and sometimes I've strayed off course to the point where they've felt propelled to …

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National Association of the Deaf

New Orleans, Louisiana
The Hamill team attended to this year’s National Association of the Deaf convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The convention was my first time here in United States. I have heard about N.A.D for the last several of years. NAD was established in 1880, by deaf leaders who believed in the right of the American Deaf community to use sign language, to protect and promote civil, human and linguistics rights of Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Fought the rights of closed captioning, and covers several of issues such as advocacy for education, employment, healthcare, technology and hosted Deaf USA Youth leadership camp.

We met with several of corporations for potential sponsorships for “Hamill” film. It is with hope they will invest into the project. We can’t do it without their assistance, as it’s a $2 million dollar budget. It’s a very low budget film considered in Hollywood standards. I found the experience really enjoyable and we had frank open discussions about the controversy. I joined the team after the controversy. I was not part of it earlier this year. I just …

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Matt is one of the people I myself, look up to. He showed me that you can do anything you want if you just put in the hard work. He inspires me to learn sign language so that i can talk and have a voice. I think that a great motion picture can be really awesome.

Daniel Tate

I'm glad to hear that you guys are utilizing Matt Hamill for your project. Matt is a great guy and a tremendous athlete whom I had the privilege of being around. When I was a young wrestler in middle school and up till my sophomore year of high school I saw Matt as an assistance coach for Loveland schools. I competed for a rival school and would always see this big guy with a funny voice screaming at the kids. "Someone please shut him up" I'd think but once people told me who he was I'm like "cool". I had a good experience with Matt around 04-05 at Milford High School when he and Doug Blubaugh put on a wrestling clinic together. Doug was spending the month at my place and operating from there for a majority of the time he was in town since me and Doug went back several years.

We get to the school and there's this rock solid monster stretching out and then sorting out his box of Hamill Airways: We Love To Make You Fly! shirts. I was helping to demonstrate some of the various moves being shown since Doug has a …

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It's been busy few months for the Hamill production team. We attended to LA Film Festival, N.A.D in New Orleans,
and meetings with prominent writers,producers,etc over the summer.
Please watch the UFC fight on Saturday, September 6th,to support Matt Hamill, as the fight is in Atlanta where the
Hamill producers are in attendance. I will be watching it from Toronto on Pay per view, as I am attending to Toronto International Film
Festival and of course, to visit my family!
Stay tuned for more news from Catherine in the next coming weeks!
Go Hamill Go!!