We’ve just heard that Coda, the applauded Sundance film written and directed by Siân Heder (Tallulah), which was presented in the US Dramatic Competition category at the January 2021 festival, bagging the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, the Directing Award, the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize, will arrive on Apple TV+ and in cinemas from 13th August.
The synopsis for the feature is as follows: 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 (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.
Looking forward to seeing this as we didn’t cover Sundance this year, sadly.
No trailer as yet, but we’ll keep you posted, folks.
