The Tuba Thieves (2023)
92 min
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.
- Release date
- March 15, 2024
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Nyeisha Prince as Nyke
- Russell Harvard as Nature Boy
- Geovanny Marroquin as Geovanny
- Warren Snipe as Arcey
- Ajia Jones as Ajia
- Sam Quinones as Self
- Patrick Shiroishi as Self
- Charlies Gaines as Self
- Norman Aaronson as The Irritated Man
- Manuel Castaneda as Centennial High School Band Leader
Crew
- Alison O'Daniel · Director
- Alison O'Daniel · Writer
- Su Kim · Producer
- Rachel Nederveld · Producer
- Alison O'Daniel · Producer
- Maya E. Rudolph · Producer
- Ethan Frederick Greene · Composer
- Christine Sun Kim · Composer
- Steve Roden · Composer
- Derek Howard · Cinematographer
- Judy Phu · Cinematographer
- Meena Singh · Cinematographer
- Zack Khalil · Editor
- Alison O'Daniel · Editor
- David Teague · Editor
- Mboni Maumba · Production designer