, which was the first feature in Sundance history to win all the top prizes, has made audiences cry, but it’s also made them laugh.
The film tells the story of a high school senior who is the only hearing person in her deaf family and is torn between holding together that unit or seeking her own dreams. It stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, a CODA, or child of deaf adults, who is busy translating for her parents and working on the family’s fishing boat.event that that she’s pleased that audiences found the film funny – case in point a scene where Kotsur’s Frank Rossi and Matlin’s Jackie Rossi have to go to the doctors for ‘jock itch’ and their daughter is forced to tell them that they can’t have sex for two weeks.“I found another way to swear,” added Heder.
The writer/director said that she was initially “suspicious” as it’s based on a 2014 French film but soon realized it was “big opportunity” to make a “personal” film and one that explores deaf culture in an “authentic way”. She admitted that she felt pressure as an “outsider” coming in to this community but that writing in a language that has no written form allowed her to “dig into my own script in a really powerful way”.
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