Coda won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. When you were first approached to direct coda, you hadn't seen the original 2014 French film La Vermeil billier. Most deaf people have hearing children and most deaf people are born to hearing parents. A lot of times codas grow up more embedded in deaf culture than a lot of deaf people did as kids.
Best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-Winning film CODA and her work on the television series Orange Is the New Black—Siân Heder joins to talk about her remarkable career as a writer, producer, and filmmaker.