Siân Heder to Direct Film on Disability Rights Activist

Apple has acquired the rights to “Being Heumann,” a memoir concerning the lifetime of incapacity rights activist Judith Heumann. And the studio has set “CODA” director Siân Heder to each write and direct the movie adaptation.

Ali Stroker will star within the movie as Heumann, who labored within the State Department within the Clinton and Obama administrations and led incapacity rights into the mainstream, and he or she additionally appeared within the documentary “Crip Camp.” Stroker is the primary actress to look on Broadway to make use of a wheelchair for mobility and to be nominated for a Tony Award.

Siân Heder will even produce “Being Heumann” with David Permut (“Hacksaw Ridge,” “Face/Off”), and Heumann’s managers John W. Beach and Kevin Cleary of Gravity Squared Entertainment. Judy Heumann and “Being Heumann” co-author Kristen Joiner will government produce. 

Heder not too long ago signed a multiyear total cope with Apple, and the studio in a report deal acquired Heder’s movie “CODA,” which received the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. It can be launched on Apple TV+ on August 13.

Heder’s cope with Apple features a first-look on options, in addition to an unique deal for sequence that she’s written and developed. She’s additionally not too long ago collaborated with them on the sequence “Little America.”

Siân Heder is represented by ICM Partners, Mosaic Media Group and legal professional Mitch Smelkinson.

Deadline first reported the information.