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CODA

By Sian HEDER

CAA - CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2020

As a CODA – Child of Deaf Adults – Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

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Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021

U.S. Dramatic Competition Audience Award / Directing Award / Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble

Sundance Film Festival 2023

Special Screenings

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Sian HEDER
- Cast
- Marlee MATLIN, Eugenio DERBEZ, Amy FORSYTH
- Synopsis
- Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing member of a deaf family. At 17, she works mornings before school to help her parents (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur) and brother (Daniel Durant) keep their Gloucester fishing business afloat. But in joining her high school’s choir club, Ruby finds herself drawn to both her duet partner (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) and her latent passion for singing. Her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) hears something special and encourages Ruby to consider music school and a future beyond fishing, leaving her torn between obligation to family and pursuit of her dream.
  
  Siân Heder’s heartwarming, exuberant follow-up to Tallulah (2016 Sundance Film Festival) brings us inside the idiosyncratic rhythms and emotions of a deaf family—something we’ve rarely seen on screen. In developing CODA, which stands for Child of Deaf Adults, Heder was determined to tell the story authentically with deaf actors. Her writing and direction—layered, naturalistic, frank, and funny—finds perfect expression in richly drawn characters and a uniformly outstanding cast, led by Jones in a fantastic breakout performance.

CODA

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