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"Coda" ... Film of Deaf Heroes Wins "Sundance" Festival
"Koda" tells the story of a schoolgirl contested by her passion for music and her eagerness to help her deaf parents and brother.
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Independent drama film "Coda" won first prize at the Sundance Film Festival, while musician Questlav's first film won the Documentary category award.
"Sundance" was the first festival to feature films produced during the "Covid-19" pandemic or dealing with this health crisis, one of which is "In the Earth", and the second is the comic film "How It Ends", both of which were written, photographed and fully synthesized during the "Covid" pandemic -19 ».
"Koda" (an expression formed from the initials of an English phrase referring to children of deaf adults) is the story of a high school student (played by Emilia Jones) who disputes her passion for music and her eagerness to stay home to help her parents and deaf brother.
The film's story is based on the French play "La Famille Pellier", which was shown in 2014. The film is set in the fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, from which director Cian Heder is descended.
And "Apple" bought the film, which was very popular on the Internet, at a record price for a film shown at the Sundance Festival, which is $ 25 million, after fierce competition between film distribution companies.
"I am very happy and very moved," said director Sian Heder.
Heider previously directed the series "Orange is the New Black".
Heder and actress Emilia Jones worked on learning sign language specifically for the film, in which she assigned the lead roles to a number of well-known deaf actors, including Oscar-winning actress Marley Matlin (Childrens of E Lesser God).
The film also won the first audience award, in addition to two awards for director and actress.
Questlave's first film, “Summer of Soul… Or One The Revolution Code Not By Tele-Phase,” for the Black Woodstock Festival, held in Harlem in 1969, won the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary.
The film uses clips that are shown for the first time about this event, which gathered at the end of the 1960s big names like Steffi Wonder, Nina Simon and Malia Jackson in front of no less than 300 thousand spectators, before it was forgotten.
"Hive", about a woman fighting for her survival in war-torn Kosovo, won the Best Foreign Dramatic Film award, while the best foreign documentary award was awarded to the animated film "Flee", about an Afghan refugee child.
This movie was bought by Neon, which distributed Parasite.
Although the Sundance Festival, which is considered one of the most prominent independent film festivals in the United States, is usually held in Park City in the Utah mountains, the "Covid-19" pandemic has prompted organizers this year to content themselves with displaying 72 films in default format.
The film's story is taken from the French play "La Famille Pellier".
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