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.
Director: Alison O'Daniel
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Nyeisha Prince as Nyke |
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Russell Harvard as Nature Boy |
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Geovanny Marroquin as Geovanny |
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Warren Snipe as Arcey |
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Norman Aaronson as The Irritated Man |
| Production | Alysa Nahmias | Consulting Producer |
| Production | Alison O'Daniel | Producer |
| Production | Wendy Ettinger | Executive Producer |
| Production | Maida Lynn | Executive Producer |
| Production | Elizabeth Skadden | Producer |
| Production | Eliza Moley | Co-Producer |
| Production | Jolene Mendes | Line Producer |
| Production | Rachel Nederveld | Producer |
| Camera | Meena Singh | Additional Photography |
| Camera | Derek Howard | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Judy Phu | Additional Photography |
| Production | Maya E. Rudolph | Producer |
| Editing | Zack Khalil | Editor |
| Production | Su Kim | Producer |
| Production | Michael Kinomoto | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Sally Jo Fifer | Executive Producer |
| Production | Lois Vossen | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Nial Morgan | Boom Operator |
| Editing | Alison O'Daniel | Editor |
| Directing | Alison O'Daniel | Director |
| Sound | Ethan Frederick Greene | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Steve Roden | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Alison O'Daniel | Writer |
| Sound | Christine Sun Kim | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Arturo Salazar R.B. | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Maria Alejandra Rojas | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Maria Alejandra Rojas | Sound Supervisor |
| Sound | Alison O'Daniel | Sound Designer |
