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Mar 2023
1h 12m

Siân Heder

Design Matters Media
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Best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-Winning film CODA and her work on the television series Orange Is the New Black—Siân Heder joins to talk about her remarkable career as a writer, producer, and filmmaker.

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