TIFF Opens With Siân Heder’s Crowd Pleasing ‘Being Heumann’ — and Apple Has Its Next Oscar Contender The Toronto International Film Festival has a long history of launching Oscar contenders, and this year is no exception.
Siân Heder's "Being Heumann" – a biographical drama about the disability rights movement – opened the festival on Thursday night to a packed audience at Roy Thomson Hall.
Heder's film tells the story of Judy Heumann, a pioneering figure in the disability rights movement.