“You’re the girl with the deaf family?”
“Yeah.”
“And you sing — interesting.”
Here’s the first trailer for CODA, the drama that floored Sundance and sold to Apple for a record $25 million-plus. It follows 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a CODA, or child of deaf…
Siân Heder’s CODA, which Apple Original Films scooped up at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival in a record $25M global deal, will debut August 13 in theaters and the streaming service.
The movie, which Heder wrote and directed, was the first in Sundance history to win all the top prizes including the Special…
EXCLUSIVE: In the first big deal of the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival, Apple has landed worldwide rights toCODA, for a number just north of $25 million. That sets a new a Sundance acquisitions record — above the $22.5 million that Palm Springs received last year from Hulu/Neon. But this time, all the premiere…
CODA was the right film to start this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. Writer-director Siân Heder’s coming-of-age drama about a girl who is the only hearing person in her deaf family premiered last night in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. The pic was well received among buyers, and we hear there have been…
If the coronavirus pandemic has forced the Sundance Film Festival to reinvent itself virtually this year, it could not have gotten off to a more satisfying start than with CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), the warm coming-of-age story of a hearing child in a deaf family. With deaf actors including Children of a Lesser God…
When Oscar winner Marlee Matlin read the script for CODA, she immediately fell in love. "I told [writer/director Sian Heder] probably a hundred million times that, 'I need to be in this movie, I must be in this movie, I have to do this movie,'" she recalled recently, while sitting down with her director and co-stars…
