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Judy Heumann lived a storied life, challenging the status quo, exposing governmental flaws, and giving a voice to one of the most marginalized, castaway communities: people with disabilities. She passed away suddenly in 2023 at age 75, after years of involvement in the movie adaptation of her biography, “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.” Siân Heder, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker known for CODA (2021), helms the adaptation, titled Being Heumann.  
Halfway through reading Heumann’s memoir, Heder immediately reached out to discuss adapting it for the screen. The two met, and the rest was history. Eleven years later, Being Heumann premiered to a sold-out, ecstatic crowd at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. 
After the screening, Kasey Dunifer met up with two of the film’s producers, John Beach and Kevin Cleary, on the red carpet to talk about what this film means to them and how they hope it inspires viewers.
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Artwork: Danny Jarabek
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Nick Kozakis is already on his third feature film, but this year marks his first TIFF appearance and his first Midnight Madness world premiere. Kick On follows a group of partiers looking to score to keep their night going, only to cross the wrong mob boss and end up in a bloody fight for survival. 
Nadia Arain sat down with Kozakis at the festival to talk to him about his approach to storytelling and his influences as a filmmaker.
Read more of her interview here.
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Nadia Arain
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Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Making its World Premiere at TIFF 2026 and directed by Serville Poblete, Sunburn is a hang-out movie set in St. James Town, a high-rise community in Toronto, and follows a group of young people trying to stay cool during the summer’s hottest day. The temperature triggers a power outage, which sends them out of their buildings and into the street.
Serville Poblete is a Filipino-Canadian screenwriter and film director from Toronto. His short documentary King’s Court, premiered at Hot Docs 2025 and was nominated for a 2026 Canadian Screen Award. His latest short, In the Morning Sun, won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2026, the Golden Gate Award at SFFILM, the Golden Reel at LAAPFF and is currently in the festival circuit and in consideration for the Academy Awards.
Evan Miller joins Poblete to discuss the inspirations behind the film, its Toronto setting, and how he balances tone and emotion. The film played in the Centrepiece and TIFF Next Wave Selects sections. 
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Evan Miller
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Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

See The Rolling Tape's Venice coverage here.
We're in the thick of fall festival season. The Venice International Film Festival wrapped up last week with its Main Competition awards as the jury gave Woman Unknown the prestigious Golden Lion, while the Telluride Film Festival went out with an explosive bang last Sunday after its surprise screening of You Can See Everything, the new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. We're currently halfway into the Toronto International Film Festival.
Today, we recap Venice while breaking down the important conversations that have occurred in shaping the award season ahead.
We've already seen World Premieres of some of our most highly anticipated awards contenders, including Ink, Wild Horse Nine, Primetime, The Debut, and Elsinore. Meanwhile, some holdovers from the Cannes Film Festival have expanded their audiences and gained even more love and support here in North America.
The Rolling Tape was fortunate enough to have Paul Rai, our Awards Editor and The Awards Tape host attend the Venice Film Festival while Cameron Ritter, Evan Miller, Kasey Dunifer, Jacob Diedenhofer, and Nadia Arain are currently on the ground in Canada.
It's been a whirlwind of first reactions, exciting movies, and plenty of Fjord film Twitter discourse. With Toronto still underway and the fall festival season far from over, there's plenty more to come, but we're offering a pulse check of the prediction moves we've made thus far.
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Danny Jarabek
Paul Rai
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After the ceremony on Monday night hosted by Mariska Hargitay and her double-digit outfit changes, we recap the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. We discuss everything from the broadcast itself to our thoughts on the host, all of the various comedy bits, the televised vs. non-televised categories, to the biggest wins and surprises for shows including Widows Bay, The Pitt, and more.
We also have an important conversation about where the Emmys are headed in the future and how we're feeling overall about the state of the Emmys in 2026 after recent reports of a pending deal for the future of the show to land on streaming.
On this episode:
Jake Fittipaldi
Bobbi Miller
Tate Fowler
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Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller