Films

They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. From Academy-award winning director Siân Heder (CODA) comes the trailblazing true story of Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley), the disability rights activist who sparked the longest occupation of a federal building in American history.

In 1977, when Joseph Califano, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight, Zodiac), refuses to enact federally mandated protections for Americans with disabilities, Heumann and hundreds of allies seize the government offices in San Francisco and refuse to leave. Being Heumann is the revolutionary and irreverent story of accidental leaders pulling off the impossible and in the process changing the lives of millions.

“A call to action that’s every bit as entertaining as it is inspiring”
-Kate Erbland, IndieWire

“Beautifully captures an era and a group of people who risked everything to change the world”
-Joe Schmidt, Collider