Little Voices...

A deaf actor who starred in Four Weddings and a Funeral is to take the lead in a film written and produced by students at a Welsh university.

Little Voices, is the story of an isolated deaf man struggling to cope with the loss of his partner. Wrexham-born David Bower, who played David in Four Weddings, said many movie scripts tackling deafness and disability were "well meaning pap", but he said the student film was "unsentimental and uncompromising".

Bower added: "To me it is a strong metaphorical description of the semantic divide between deaf and hearing people and explores an interesting area of human perception and communication. "The script is edgy, punky and gritty, and from an acting point of view should be fun to do."

Little Voices is the product of careful research into pre-linguistic deafness by three postgraduate film students, from the University of Glamorgan, which is a lead partner in Screen Academy Wales.

MORE