SF Honors: CODA

Guests Expected

Director Siân Heder is expected to attend to accept the SF Honors award in-person and join us for a Q+A after the film.

Description

SFFILM is thrilled to return to the theater with an advance screening of CODA as part of our SF Honors series. Effective Tuesday, August 3, in accordance with the San Francisco Department of Public Health Mask Mandate, we require all attendees to wear a mask at indoor events. Additionally, patrons must provide proof of vaccination at SFFILM’s indoor screenings and events. Guests without these documents will be denied upon entry—no exceptions. If you are unable to provide these records, we look forward to welcoming you back at a future event.

Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Academy Award®-winner 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). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.

SF Honors is an award and tribute presented by SFFILM and made possible by support from SFFILM Board Member Todd Traina and philanthropist Diane B. Wilsey. This series is designed to showcase and honor the fresh and bold talent behind one of the year’s most compelling films.

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Writer/Director Siân Heder

Siân Heder grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a family of visual artists. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she works as a writer, director and showrunner. Her most recent work includes executive producing and co-showrunning Little America for Apple TV+ and directing CODA. She wrote and produced for three seasons on the acclaimed Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, receiving multiple WGA nominations for her work.

Her other television credits include Men of a Certain Age, which earned her a Peabody Award. She has directed episodes of Netflix’s GLOW and Orange Is the New Black, Hulu’s The Path and Little America. Her first short film, Mother, was awarded the Cinéfondation Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival. Her debut feature film, Tallulah, starring Elliot Page and Alison Janney, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was released as a Netflix original.

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