A single violent incident becomes an apocalyptic catalyst in the lives of five prep school boys, disfiguring each emotionally. The incident also serves as the springboard for the film's fragmented structure - developed not as a single narrative line, but instead, like an orchestral score - with different parts of the same story radiating out of a single point. The coda of the title is, in music, a final passage bringing a composition to a definite, formal close. In this film, the "coda" occurs not at the end, but at the beginning of the film - and serves as both the spark and the resolution.

Festivals & Awards

• Oberhausen Short Film Festival - International Competition
• Cleveland International Film Festival - Best Ohio Short
• Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Center
• IFP/East Market
• IFP/Midwest Film Conference - Best in Festival
• Around the Coyote Arts Festival - Curator's Choice
• New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - Official Selection
• Director's View International Student Film Festival - First Place
• Dover Film Festival - Official Selection.

Filmmaker bios:
KITAO SAKURAI was born in Kinugasa, Japan 19 years ago and grew up in the United States. He began acting as a child and has appeared in such films as Kevin Smith's Dogma. While still in high school in Cleveland, Sakurai wrote CODA and directed and produced it along with Andrew Spirk. His new short, Joseph and Julia, premiered at the Stockholm International Festival, and has since shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He is currently at work on a feature film.

ANDREW SPIRK became interested in photography and filmmaking at a very early age and has since worked on a number of commercial and independent short, feature and documentary projects. He and Sakurai met in middle school, where they collaborated on numerous design and photographic pieces. Spirk has studied and taught photography and filmmaking in Maine, and is currently enrolled at Columbia University Chicago.