Apple Movie About Disability Rights Activist To Premiere
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Being Heumann, directed by Siân Heder (CODA), premieres Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival, opens in select theaters Nov. 6, and streams on Apple TV Nov. 13. The film stars Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann, the disability rights activist who led a 1977 sit-in at the San Francisco Federal Building that pressured the government to enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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