Being Heumann

Siân Heder's follow-up to CODA dramatizes the 1977 occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building, when Judy Heumann led more than a hundred disabled activists in a 28-day sit-in to force enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Ruth Madeley plays Heumann; Mark Ruffalo is Joseph Califano, the HEW secretary who kept citing the price tag. Heder co-wrote the script with Rebekah Taussig from Heumann's 2020 memoir, and the cast includes Dylan O'Brien, Rob Delaney and CODA's Daniel Durant. Being Heumann opened the Toronto International Film Festival and placed as a People's Choice runner-up there; its theatrical run is a short one ahead of a streaming release.