Apple Original Films has released the trailer for Being Heumann, Siân Heder’s follow-up to her CODA, inspired by the life of disability rights activist Judy Heumann. The film stars Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo and arrives in theaters and on Apple TV next month.
Per the official description, “They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. In 1977, a young disabled woman (Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of outsiders decide they’ve had enough. What begins as one impulsive act becomes the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, as hundreds spontaneously seize government offices and refuse to leave until the bureaucrat in their way (Ruffalo) takes action. Bringing rebellion in all its forms to the hallowed halls, a movement’s accidental leaders struggle to find their path forward where none has ever been paved for them. Directed by Academy Award winner Siân Heder (CODA) and based on true events, Being Heumann is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.”
Apple says the film follows Heumann as she leads more than a hundred young people in a takeover of the San Francisco Federal building in a fight for equal rights.
Being Heumann opened the Toronto International Film Festival, which in July had selected the film as its opening-night title. The trailer arrives just ahead of the film’s Gala presentation at the BFI London Film Festival.
Who stars in ‘Being Heumann’?
Along with Madeley and Ruffalo, the cast includes Dylan O’Brien, Madeline Delp, Roberta Colindrez, Jon Beavers, Antwan Tolliver, Ray Fisher, Andrew Pilkington, Michael Patrick Thornton, Russell Harvard, Daniel Durant, Charlie Rush-Reese, Rio Finnegan, D’Arcee Charington Neal, Will Brill, Rob Delaney, Matthew August Jeffers, Siena Rafter and Rein Barcel.
Heder wrote, directed and produced the film, and co-wrote it with Rebekah Taussig. David Permut of Permut Presentations, John Beach, Kevin Cleary and Kevin Walsh of the Walsh Company also produce. Jim LeBrecht, Diana Pokorny, Ann Molin and Kristen Joiner, co-author of Heumann’s best-selling memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, are executive producers.
When does ‘Being Heumann’ premiere?
Being Heumann debuts in select theaters Nov. 6 and arrives on Apple TV on Nov. 13. Watch the trailer below:
Featured image photo credit: Apple Original Films
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