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Broadway World's AFF coverage included a featured write-up on the documentary, broadening the film's reach into theatrical and arts press.

A festival-circuit review out of AFF that captured the audience-favorite energy in the room at the premiere screening.

Recap of a Deaf Santa Claus Foundation event on Oct 26, 2024.

The Austin Chronicle’s premiere-weekend coverage at AFF, calling out Charles Graves as America’s first Deaf Santa and exploring representation through the eyes of co-director Anthony Mowl, a fourth-generation Deaf Texan whose daughter is fifth-generation Deaf. A defining quote in the local conversation around the film.

World Premiere on October 26, 2024 at the 31st Austin Film Festival, screening at Rollins Theatre at the Long Center at 1:00 PM with a second showing October 30 at 8:30 PM at Galaxy Theatre 6.

An in-depth Texas Highways profile of Charles Graves and the road from New Braunfels to the Austin Film Festival premiere — how Anthony Mowl first met Charles at a Texas School for the Deaf holiday event, the partnership that grew from that encounter, and what it means for Deaf children to finally have a Santa who signs.

DeafNation, the largest Deaf-centered media outlet in the U.S., conducted a deep interview with Charles Graves about Deaf identity, fatherhood, and the responsibility of being the first.