Overview
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.
Production
ITVS · Field of Vision · Ford Foundation / JustFilms · Chicken & Egg Films · Louverture Films · Creative Capital
Cast & Characters
Nyeisha Prince
Nyke
Russell Harvard
Nature Boy
Geovanny Marroquin
Geovanny
Warren Snipe
Arcey
Norman Aaronson
The Irritated Man
Directors & Crew
Rachel Nederveld
Producer
Alison O'Daniel
Producer
Elizabeth Skadden
Producer
Su Kim
Producer
Maya E. Rudolph
Producer
Alison O'Daniel
Director
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