The Tuba Thieves

03/15/2024

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1hr 32min

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Documentary

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Nyeisha Prince
  • Russell Harvard
  • Geovanny Marroquin
  • Warren Snipe

    Director

  • Alison O'Daniel

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ITVS
  • Field of Vision
  • JustFilms / Ford Foundation
  • Chicken & Egg Films
  • Louverture Films
  • Creative Capital

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

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