Where to watch “Coda”, the winner of the Oscar for Best Film and other fictions by its director

On Sunday, March 27, the 94th Oscar Awards were held. The dispute between the ten candidates for the top prize was almost reduced to two films: The Power of the Dog (The Power of the Dog, directed by Jane Campion, which rose as the statuette for best director that can be seen on Netflix) and Coda: Signs of the Heart, which was finally awarded as the best title of the year.

The film is now available on Prime Video for Latin America. It had a brief stint in cinemas and was also on AppleTV+ which was the one who produced it and won its first Oscar for Best Film.

Coda is set in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a fishing place where the Rossi family lives composed of the Frank and Jackie clan parents, played by Troy Kotsur and Marlee Martlin respectively, and their children Leo and Ruby (Daniel Durant and Emilia Jones). The Rossi are hearing impaired except Ruby, the teenager who is the family's link with the rest of the world and has the dream of dedicating herself to singing. Coda is also a remake of the French film The Bélier Family (2015) that had the same approach.

In the last installment, the director of this film, Sian Heder, won an Oscar award for best screenplay adapted by Coda as she is also a screenwriter. His pen was staged when he took over the plots of seasons 1 and 3 of the Netflix series Orange is the new Black and also directed an episode of this series. She also sat in the director's chair in the series Glow, Little America (fiction for which she is also a producer) and Queen Fur, among others.

In 2015, he went back behind the camera and directed the film Tallulah starring Elliot Page, Tammy Blanchard and Allison Janney, which can be seen on Netflix. Her past as a nanny pushed her to make this film that tells the lives of three women who are mothers in different circumstances. There she worked with cinematographer Paula Huidobro who also accompanied her on Coda. “I think that very often women, in storytelling, in Hollywood and on television, have been forced to accept stereotypes. In life we are complicated people, and those are the most interesting characters to see. Television has moved faster than movies to achieve that,” he said in an interview with MTV.

But Sian also had her time in acting and we have seen her in minor roles in television series such as The Sopranos, Law and Order, Sorceress, Boston Legal and West Bank Brooklyn among other fictions. He was also a screenwriter for the series Men of a certain age between 2010 and 2011.

Heder is now living a dream as his film won the most important award in the industry. She took the topic of inclusion very seriously and decided to learn sign language. “It was never an option to make the film with hearing actors who played deaf people,” Heder said in Vanity Fair magazine, adding “It is subversive to take a culture that we rarely see, to have a film where 50% of the dialogue scenes are silent and in full ASL. I loved that my taxi driver in New York said, “Oh, I've seen 'CODA'. I've never seen a deaf family on screen before.” It feels important that the film has a wide reach.”

Coda: Signs of the Heart is available on Prime Video and will possibly return to movie theaters after his victory.

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