WRITER/DIR: Alek Lev
PRODS: Paul Maucere, Cassandra Jones
CAST: John Maucere, Josh Breslow, Jeremy Guskin, Amber Zion, Josep Daniel Rosello, Marina Longares Escrichs, Sheena Lyles, Keaton Talmadge, Trevor Murphy, Liz Tannebaum, Christina Schöenfeld, Kay Daigle, Cass Del Castillo, Ruha Taslimi, Anthony Natale, Amanda Peterson, Christy Meyers, John Nicholson, Michael Anthony Spady, Jodi Dennithorne
Filmed in the black-and-white, silent style of Charlie Chaplin, but set in modern-day Los Angeles, WHAT? tells the story of a Deaf actor who has had enough of the disrespect and discrimination he confronts in Hollywood. He decides – through sign language, gestures, charades, and whatever it takes – to take matters into his own… hands.
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