Worldleaf Cinema Festival

A first-of-its-kind event, the Worldleaf Cinema Festival showcases the highest caliber of deaf film from around the world. Among the festival's 17 films, organized into award categories including Best Narrative, Best Documentary and Best Film about the Deaf Experience by a Hearing Filmmaker, is Laura Harvey's Deaf in Pink: 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk in San Diego. The film, nominated in the festival's Best Short category and made with Harvey and her wife Aline, follows seven deaf women in the Susan G. Komen Walk. Festival runs to Sunday, Nov. 7, but the awards ceremony is Saturday, Nov. 6. Worldeaf Cinema Festival, Elstad Auditorium, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. NE. Tickets are $10 each screening. Visit wdef.gallaudet.edu for a full schedule and tickets.