CODA has won the top award at the Sundance Film Festival, taking this year's U.S. Grand Jury prize. The title, which made headlines earlier in the fest for its record-breaking $25 million sale to Apple, also took the dramatic audience award, while director Sian Heder was honored with the directing award for U.S.
dramatic competition. "I hope that this opened the door to people getting that audiences want to see these kinds of stories," said Heder of the movie, which centers on a hearing teenage girl that is a child of deaf adults. "I hope that this means that more stories that center on deaf characters and characters with disability get put front and center." The 2021 festival ceremony did not take place in snowy Park City, but was instead.
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