Following a Best Picture winner is no enviable task, but Siân Heder has never seemed particularly interested in taking the easy route. With Being Heumann, her first feature since CODA, the writer-director turns her attention to disability rights activist Judy Heumann and a landmark moment in American civil rights history, delivering a film that is…
History has a habit of remembering its revolutionaries as larger-than-life figures, their imperfections smoothed over in favour of the extraordinary things they achieved. But for Ruth Madeley, portraying disability rights activist Judy Heumann in Being Heumann meant looking beyond the icon to find the complicated, funny, occasionally stubborn woman underneath. Directed by Academy Award winner…
