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The Tuba Thieves

The Tuba Thieves (2024)

1h 32m | PG-13

⭐ 8 / 10

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

Studio: ITVS

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Nyeisha Prince

Nyeisha Prince

as Nyke

Russell Harvard

Russell Harvard

as Nature Boy

Geovanny Marroquin

Geovanny Marroquin

as Geovanny

Warren Snipe

Warren Snipe

as Arcey