Being Heumann
Actors Andrew Pilkington, Siena Rafter, and Matthew August Jeffers will join us for our Friday, November 13 screening at 6:30pm to introduce the film and participate in a post-show discussion.
They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building.
In 1977, a young disabled woman (Ruth Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of outsiders decide they’ve had enough. What begins as one impulsive act becomes the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, as hundreds spontaneously seize government offices and refuse to leave until the bureaucrat in their way (Mark Ruffalo) takes action. Bringing rebellion in all its forms to the hallowed halls, a movement’s accidental leaders struggle to find their path forward where none has ever been paved for them.
Directed by Academy Award winner Siân Heder (CODA) and based on true events, Being Heumann is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.
All screenings will be with Open Captions.
Our Sunday, 11/15 screening at 10:30am will be a Relaxed Screening Our Tuesday, 11/17 screening at 6:30pm and Thursday, 11/19 screening at 11:00am will have Open Audio Descriptions.
