The Tuba Thieves
2024•NR•1h 32m•8.0•Released
DocumentaryDrama
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
Director
Alison O'Daniel
Writer
Alison O'Daniel
Languages
English
Studio
ITVS
Cast
Nyeisha Prince
Nyke
Russell Harvard
Nature Boy
Geovanny Marroquin
Geovanny
Warren Snipe
Arcey
Norman Aaronson
The Irritated Man
Production
Company
ITVS
Company
Field of Vision
Company
JustFilms / Ford Foundation
Company
Chicken & Egg Films
Company
Louverture Films
Company
Creative Capital
Producer
Rachel Nederveld
Producer
Alison O'Daniel
Producer
Elizabeth Skadden
Producer
Su Kim
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