The Tuba Thieves

92 mins
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.

Wendy Ettinger

Executive Producer

Maida Brankman

Executive Producer

Jolene Mendes

Line Producer

Eliza Moley

Co-Producer

Alysa Nahmias

Consulting Producer

Derek Howard

Director of Photography

Judy Phu

Additional Photography

Meena Singh

Additional Photography

Su Kim

Producer

Maya Rudolph

Producer

Sally Jo Fifer

Executive Producer

Lois Vossen

Executive Producer

Michael Kinomoto

Supervising Producer

Nial Morgan

Boom Operator

Christine Sun Kim

Original Music Composer

Ethan Frederick Greene

Original Music Composer

Steve Roden

Original Music Composer

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