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How a San Francisco disability rights protest inspired the film ‘Being Heumann’
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By Pam Grady,
Contributor
Nov 3, 2026
Disability rights activist Judith Heumann, …center, is joined by a delegation of handicapped protesters on their way to Washington at the San Francisco International Airport in 1977. Heumann, along with 100 other protesters, had just participated in the Section 504 sit-in at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at the Federal Building in San Francisco.
Disability rights activist Judith Heumann, center, is joined by a delegation of handicapped protesters on their way to Washington at the San Francisco International Airport in 1977. Heumann, along with 100 other protesters, had just participated in the Section 504 sit-in at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at the Federal Building in San Francisco.
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In 1977, a group of disabled activists took over a federal building in San Francisco. They stayed for 26 Days — a record that still stands as the longest occupation of a federal building by protesters.
Mounted by disabled activists led by Judy Heumann, the action aimed to convince Joseph Califano, the Carter administration’s secretary of health, education and welfare to enforce Section 504, a key component of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that granted civil rights protections to people with disabilities.
Califano continued the delay in enforcing Section 504 that began during the Nixon administration, citing the expense of the accommodations that equality would require. He formed a committee with no disabled people on it to study the issue. But disabled people who spent their lives fighting for equal opportunity were done with being second-class citizens.
The drama of that standoff is at the heart of Siân Heder’s latest film, “Being Heumann.” Ruth Madeley (“Doctor Who”) plays the native New Yorker Heumann, with Mark Ruffalo cast as Califano.
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“Being Heumann” (R) opens Friday, Nov. 6, in select Bay Area theaters before streaming on Apple TV on Friday, Nov. 13.
It was “Crip Camp,” Bay Area filmmakers Jim LeBrecht (an executive producer on “Being Heumann”) and Nicole Newnham’s Oscar-nominated documentary about a summer camp for disabled children, that introduced the “CODA” writer-director to Heumann. After reading the activist’s memoir, “Being Heumann,” Heder became excited at the prospect of making a film about her. In a triumph of timing, Heumann was on the verge of hiring a director for a proposed film when Heder reached out with her pitch.
“You could make a biopic of Judy, which would be incredibly interesting. There were all these chapters of her life that would have made a great movie,” Heder told the Chronicle. “But when I got to the section (about the protest), I was like, ‘Oh, this is a contained heist story.’“
Heder saw a model for that kind of contained, character-driven story in Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film about a bank robbery that becomes a media spectacle.
“There was something exciting for me in the way that ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ just drops you right into that story, and then you learn about the characters as you go,” she said.
Disability rights activist and Center for Independent Living founder Judith Heumann is photographed in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in 1980.
Disability rights activist and Center for Independent Living founder Judith Heumann is photographed in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in 1980.
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Heumann embraced the idea, choosing Heder to tell her story. When Heumann died in 2023, the director, who was in the midst of developing several projects, decided "Being Heumann” would be her next film.
Coming off the best picture Academy Award for “CODA” and the adapted screenplay she won for the film, Heder had the clout needed to get backing for a large-scale period drama she might never again have the opportunity to make.
The film required the San Francisco federal buildings and its surroundings to be meticulously recreated in Toronto, filled with a large ensemble of mostly disabled actors. The production also called for a large accessibility team.
Casting disabled actors, many unknown, to play people with disabilities was crucial. Beyond the irony implicit in casting able-bodied actors in a film about disabled people fighting for their rights, Heder believes only actors from the disabled community could fully inhabit those characters.
“For instance, thinking about ‘CODA,’ if you have an actor playing deaf, part of their work is always going to be, ‘OK, I need to be deaf and I need to be these other things.’ You put (deaf actor) Troy Krotsur in that role, and he's playing the moment,” Heder explained.
Ruth Madeley, left, with director Siân Heder on set of “Being Heumann.”
Ruth Madeley, left, with director Siân Heder on set of “Being Heumann.”
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For Heder, the benefits of that approach went beyond authenticity. It also opened the door to actors she might not otherwise have encountered.
“An actor like Ruth is a gift, an incredible actor. … and the cast that I got to discover on this movie was incredible. It brought a sense of realism and a lived-in quality to the movie,” she said. “When you don't take the time to search for talent in these communities, you miss out on artists that you get to collaborate with, and by having a set that's not accessible, you miss out on these collaborations.”
Madeley pointed out that even with a disabled cast playing disabled people, there were still challenges. In her own case, the English actor not only had to learn Heumann’s Brooklyn accent, but she had to learn how Judy sat in a wheelchair.
“The way my body exists in the world is very different from the way hers did,” noted Madeley, who has spinal bifida, while Judy was paralyzed by polio as a child. “That was quite a challenge to show well and properly. Judy had no core strength, so she couldn't balance her body in the way that I can.”
In the years since the federal building occupation, the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990 and ramps, curb cuts, wheelchair lifts and other accommodations have become more standard. Yet significant barriers remain.
Andrew Pilkington, from left, Siena Rafter, Charlie Rush-Reese, Dylan O’Brien, Roberta Colindrez, Ruth Madeley and Madeline Delp in “Being Heumann.”
Andrew Pilkington, from left, Siena Rafter, Charlie Rush-Reese, Dylan O’Brien, Roberta Colindrez, Ruth Madeley and Madeline Delp in “Being Heumann.”
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Ruffalo has experienced this firsthand through his close friend, actor Christopher Thornton (“The Pitt” and star of Ruffalo’s 2010 film “Sympathy for Delicious”), who was paralyzed in a rock climbing accident. He recalled once carrying Thornton up three flights of stairs at a New York subway stop that lacked an elevator.
“I know even today how hard it is for him,” Ruffalo said. “I know his struggle, and it’s very personal to me.”
Nearly five decades later, the fight over Section 504 has taken on a new urgency. “Being Heumann” is arriving as the Trump administration rolls back protections under the Rehabilitation Act, including the mandate for the full integration of people with disabilities into American society.
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“This story took place 50 years ago, but it feels incredibly relevant to me in the current moment,” Heder said. “We're in a time where people are being marginalized and made to feel invisible, and (back then) was a time when collective action worked. A lot of people came together to support this group in the building because it was like, if we are going to disenfranchise this marginalized group, then we're all in trouble.
“I think that's a moment that we're in right now. We have to raise our voices together because the powers working against us are more powerful than ever.”
Pam Grady is a freelance writer.
Nov 3, 2026
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The San Francisco Monument
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Needs Your Help!
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument in San Francisco features a display of archival photographs of the Volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, both during the Spanish Civil War and in the …years afterward, commemorating the Volunteers’ continuing activism throughout their lives. Dedicated on March 30, 2008, it is the most prominent monument in the United States to the veterans of the Spanish Civil War and the continuing fight against Fascism. The monument is located on the San Francisco Embarcadero.
The park complex on the Embarcadero where the monument sits is now slated for an aggressive redevelopment plan. This plan does not include the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument.
We urge our supporters everywhere to make their voices heard and help us protect our monument to the Lincoln Brigade. You can find ways to get involved below!
We encourage supporters to email the San Fransico Board of Supervisors in support of protecting the monument during this redevelopment process. A sample letter is below. The primary asks our supporters are making are:
Require a permanent, prominent, and accessible home developed with ALBA and artist Walter Hood, including consideration of design changes that could retain the monument within the renovated park.
Identify funding, a responsible City department and a firm installation timetable, with conservation safeguards and secure handling and storage during any move.
Provide readable, accessible panels and space for education, commemorations and community gatherings.
If a final site cannot be identified now, set a deadline for presenting alternatives and require a public progress report before the next design approval.
Sample Letter
To whom it may concern,
I write to you today about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument on the Embarcadero, which honors approximately 2,800 Americans who volunteered to defend the Spanish Republic against fascism. They recognized the international threat posed by Hitler and Mussolini when much of the world looked away. Many never returned. Their courage and sacrifice belong permanently in San Francisco’s public memory.
When San Francisco accepted this monument, it made a commitment to those volunteers, their families, the artists and supporters, and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom and his administration, who helped bring it into being. Allowing it to disappear into indefinite storage or become an afterthought would break that commitment.
I respectfully ask for a commitment from the city government. That commitment should require:
• A permanent, prominent and accessible location, developed in consultation with ALBA and artist Walter Hood.
• Identified funding, a responsible City department and a firm timetable for installation.
• Appropriate conservation, secure handling and storage during any move.
• Readable, accessible panels and space for education, commemorations and community gatherings.
The monument cannot get lost in the shuffle. A renewed waterfront should help residents and visitors encounter this history and understand its continuing significance.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers stood against fascism when doing so demanded extraordinary courage. San Francisco must keep faith with them.
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