Release Date

15 Mar, 2024

Runtime

01:32: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

The Tuba Thieves

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Actors

Nyeisha Prince

Russell Harvard

Geovanny Marroquin

Warren Snipe

Norman Aaronson

Crew

Alysa Nahmias

Rachel Nederveld

Maida Lynn

Jolene Mendes

Alison O'Daniel

Wendy Ettinger

Elizabeth Skadden

Eliza Moley

Derek Howard

Judy Phu

Meena Singh

Zack Khalil

Su Kim

Maya E. Rudolph