Marko Kumer Murč je dokumentarist in avtor filmov Zelena utopija, ki je poetični dokumentarni film o urbanih vrtovih, in Mesto svetlobe, ki razkriva zgodbe ljudi iz Šoštanja po izgradnji termoelektrarne.  V letu 2020 je realiziral film Jezik enakopravnosti, ki govori o težavah gluhih v Sloveniji. Je režiser filma The Other Side of the Pipe, s katerim je bil sprejet na različne mednarodne delavnice, dobil nagrado Al Jazeere Balkan na mednarodnem festivalu ZagrebDOX in finančno nagrado Re-Acta.

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Due to rigid teaching approaches and violation of the basic right to use sign language, the education of deaf children has left them with life-long consequences. Heartbreaking personal testimonies reveal how the ban on using their mother tongue in education has had a disastrous effect on the deaf linguistic minority. As a result of the linguistic genocide lasting a century, all conditions for the final extinction of Slovenian Sign Language were established. With the help of its representative disability organisation and the local deaf and hard of hearing societies, the deaf community became united in its efforts to prevent this from happening. The documentary presents one of the longest, but also the most important endeavours of deaf people to have their right to use sign language set down in the Slovene constitution.

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Marko Kumer Murč is a documentary filmmaker and author of the films Green Utopia, which is a poetic documentary film about urban gardens, and City of Light, which reveals the stories of the people of Šoštanj after the construction of the thermal power plant. In 2020, he realized the film The Language of Equality, which talks about the problems of the deaf in Slovenia. He is the director of the film The Other Side of the Pipe, with which he was accepted to various international workshops, won the Al Jazeera Balkan award at the ZagrebDOX international festival and the Re-Acta financial award.