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‘CODA’ writer and director Sian Heder accepts outstanding achievement in screenwriting for The Hollywood Reporter’s Raising Our Voices series, presented by Walmart.

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00:00thank you so much to the hollywood reporter for this incredible honor um writing this script for

00:12me was an amazing education and so i would say both as an artist and as a human being

00:20so i want to thank some of the people that helped me on that journey um first of all the real life

00:26codas who were generous enough to share their stories with me as i was writing the script

00:32my deaf collaborators who read drafts of the script and gave me notes um my asl masters and

00:40thomasetti and alexandria wales who were amazing partners for me in not only doing the translation

00:47of the script but also being my eyes on deaf culture and making sure that this film felt

00:53authentic and real and i could not have done it without them and my collaborators in front of

00:58the camera marley troy and daniel thank you for trusting me with this story um and helping me

01:05to shape it and tell it and make sure that we did it right um and you know i hope that the success

01:12of coda kicks open the door because this is one story of many and i there are so many deaf artists

01:22out there talent not only among the acting community but directors writers and i this is an incredible

01:31language it's an incredible culture i was so honored to be a part of telling this story and i hope that

01:37it means that more of these stories will be told so thank you so much again to the hollywood reporter

01:43this is amazing and i feel very lucky to have taken this journey

01:47i have so much to say but so little times but thank you to the hollywood reporter for honoring sean

01:59with this wonderful recognition she truly deserves two three four thousand percent for this work because

02:10all these years that i've been in the industry as an actor i've had the opportunity to see so many

02:17different writers scripts actors directors productions in general and as far as all of them they were

02:29almost pretty much the same they knew what to expect as for myself i knew what i was going to expect

02:34i learned my lines i work with the actors i work with the directors but on this film on coda sean

02:43really made a very exceptional not special because we are special characters because we happen to be

02:50deaf she wrote a script that really was authentic to the point where we as actors who are deaf

02:58knew this was a very important story to tell and as sean mentioned it is one of a thousand stories

03:06to share in the future i know sean understood our culture she made a point of understanding our

03:14language she made a point of understanding how deaf actors work with each other on a set

03:18and that's called collaboration she understood she offered respect she listened she trusted us as actors

03:28and with her directing with just her words of um you know as a human being she was just so warm

03:38and creative and so passionate about her work and she really passed on a great deal of empathy and as

03:44actors it was a joy to see us be able to explore from the first day to the last without any sort of

03:53boundaries it was really i mean american sign language is such a crucial part of our culture

04:00a tool if you would like to say that that it allows us to express ourselves in a genuine manner and i just

04:09can't imagine sean not directing coda i hope and i trust that directors and writers will follow sean's

04:19example of what a good director and writer is all about particularly as they relate to collaborating

04:29with cultures that we've not seen before in film that we've never experienced

04:34the opportunity to learn to do your homework and ultimately to communicate

04:41allows you to represent and sean really is a shining example of that she's

04:50i mean she knows what it takes to be a good director particularly with actors like ourselves

04:57i feel really honored to have had the opportunity to work with sean and i'm so honored that my name

05:03is included in the same project as hers and i hope that we can work together again if she'll have me

05:12we will we will thank you sean thank you thank you for

05:21all the things that you've done for us for listening to us and thank you

05:29for your heart it is golden thank you for being in my movie marley

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