Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). “Apple said, ‘We don’t want this to be a movie, we want this to start a movement,’” Heder told Variety in February. CODA Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a Deaf family a CODA, or child of Deaf adults. Accessibility is especially important, Heder notes, because Hollywood doesn’t often spotlight authentic stories about deaf people. Heder, who previously worked with Apple on the television show “Little America,” wanted to collaborate with the streamer because of its global reach.
Some of its originals include Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” “Greyhound” with Tom Hanks” and the Academy Award-nominated animated adventure “Wolfwalkers.”
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It was produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome SeydouxĪpple TV Plus, which launched in 2019 and fielded the popular TV series “The Morning Show,” has been ramping up its film slate. CODA debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, winning four awards: The Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award, Best Director and an Ensemble Acting Award. Along with hearing actors Jones and Eugenio Derbez, the film features deaf actors Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant in key roles. A heartwarming family drama, CODA which stands for 'Child of Deaf Adults' won four awards at this years Sundance Film Festival, including both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. This month writer/director Sian Heder’s feature film CODA is being released theatrically and will make its streaming debut on Apple TV+. For Heder, it was important that “CODA” (an acronym for Children of Deaf Adults) had inclusive casting. “CODA,” a remake of the French film “La Famille Belier,” captures the internal struggle of 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who helps her deaf parents and brother run the family’s fishing business but dreams of going to music school and pursing a singing career.
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“Yet the movie brings this all off with such sincerity and precision, and the film is so enthrallingly well-acted, that you may come away feeling grateful that this kind of mainstream dramatic craftsmanship still exists.” Sundance CODA, the coming-of-age drama that premiered Thursday to raves, has sold to Apple for around 25 million, smashing the sales record set last year when Neon and Hulu teamed up to buy. “In many ways, it’s a highly conventional film, with tailored story arcs that crest and resolve just so, and emotional peaks and valleys that touch big fat rounded chords of inspiration,” he wrote. In Variety’s review of “CODA,” chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called the movie a “gem.”
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