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The Fingerspellers: Behind the scenes
Take a look at how our gangster comedy was made!
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Behind the scenes. Produced by Caroline O’Neill for Flashing Lights Media. Go behind the scenes of our gangster comedy, The Fingerspellers. The series, about a family of Deaf gangsters who use their signing hands as weapons, is a madcap comedy that started life as a series of short episodes in the BSL Zone's Wicked series.
You can watch The Fingerspellers here.
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