The Tuba Thieves (2024)
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.
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Nyeisha Prince
as Nyke
as Nyke
Russell Harvard
as Nature Boy
as Nature Boy
Geovanny Marroquin
as Geovanny
as Geovanny
Warren Snipe
as Arcey
as Arcey
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Alysa Nahmias
Consulting Producer
Consulting Producer
Rachel Nederveld
Producer
Producer
Maida Brankman
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Jolene Mendes
Line Producer
Line Producer
Alison O'Daniel
Producer
Producer
Wendy Ettinger
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Elizabeth Skadden
Producer
Producer
Eliza Moley
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Derek Howard
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Judy Phu
Additional Photography
Additional Photography
Meena Singh
Additional Photography
Additional Photography
Zack Khalil
Editor
Editor
Su Kim
Producer
Producer
Maya Rudolph
Producer
Producer
Michael Kinomoto
Supervising Producer
Supervising Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Lois Vossen
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Nial Morgan
Boom Operator
Boom Operator
Alison O'Daniel
Director
Director
Alison O'Daniel
Editor
Editor
Alison O'Daniel
Writer
Writer
Christine Sun Kim
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Steve Roden
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Ethan Frederick Greene
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
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