Overview
- Apple Original Films released the first teaser trailer on Wednesday and confirmed Being Heumann will have its world premiere as the Opening Night film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- Ruth Madeley stars as disability-rights leader Judy Heumann and Mark Ruffalo plays the bureaucrat who opposes the activists, supported by a large ensemble cast announced in press materials.
- The film is adapted from Heumann’s memoir and dramatizes the 1977 Section 504 sit-in, a 28-day occupation of the San Francisco federal building that pushed the federal government to enforce accessibility protections.
- Being Heumann is scheduled to open in select U.S. theaters on November 6 and begin streaming globally on Apple TV on November 13, giving it both a theatrical presence and a wide streaming launch.
- The project is Siân Heder’s first feature since CODA and signals Apple TV’s continued effort to build prestige films that highlight underrepresented stories and reach broad audiences.