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lineup for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival dropped last week, featuring premieres from some of the most exciting filmmakers working today, including familiar names like Bill Condon (the Dreamgirls director adapting another musical with Kiss Of The Spider Woman) and Ira Sachs (reuniting with his Passengers star Ben Whishaw for Peter Hujar’s Day).But there’s one name we absolutely recognized from the list of directors who we 100% didn’t expect to see there: Nyle DiMarco.Wait, the Nyle DiMarco? As in the hunky queer model, actor, author, winner of America’s Next Top Model cycle 22 & Dancing With The Stars season 22, and noted Deaf activist?Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Yup, that’s the one. Turns out DiMarco is adding “director” to his long list of talents, further solidifying himself as a multi-hyphenate hottie!A post shared by Nyle DiMarco (@nyledimarco)Already an Academy Award-nominated producer thanks to his work as an executive producer on the 2021 documentary short Audible, DiMarco has teamed up with Davis Guggenheim (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie) to co-direct a feature-length doc about an important piece of history near and dear to his heart: Deaf President Now!DiMarco is an alum of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the country’s first school for the Deaf community.

Back in 1988, Gallaudet was in the process of selecting a new president, and students were excited about a number of Deaf candidates, with the possibility that someone like them could be leading the institution for the first time.However, the university’s board of trustees—a majority of hearing individuals—wound up selecting the lone hearing candidate, it sparked outrage from the student body. So, four of them in particular (Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Tim Rarus and Greg Hlibok) led the charge, organizing a week of rallies, boycotts and protests.The “Gallaudet Four’s” activism is seen as a

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