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Online Sundance opens to virtual ovation for deaf drama

Online Sundance opens to virtual ovation for deaf drama

Critics praised Emilia Jones’ “breakout” performance in Sundance Film Festival opener “CODA”.

LOS ANGELES: The Sundance Film Festival, forced online this year by the pandemic, quietly opened to a virtual “standing ovation” for deaf family drama “CODA” Thursday.

Taking its title from an acronym for child of deaf adult, “CODA” follows high-school teen Ruby (Emilia Jones) as she juggles her musical ambitions with her family’s dependence on her to communicate with the “hearing” world.

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