Artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel appeared on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2019 as her feature The Tuba Thieves, screening next week on Independent Lens, moved from stop-and-start production — she had been shooting the film in “bits and pieces” since 2013 — to a finishing sprint. Inspired by a news story about a rash of tuba thefts from Los Angeles marching bands, the film is an impressive and wholly original expansion of O’Daniel’s overall project. As I wrote in the 25 New Face piece, “Sound — as subject matter, metaphor, and structuralist organizing principle — is at the […]
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- 5/14/2024
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel appeared on Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces list in 2019 as her feature The Tuba Thieves, screening next week on Independent Lens, moved from stop-and-start production — she had been shooting the film in “bits and pieces” since 2013 — to a finishing sprint. Inspired by a news story about a rash of tuba thefts from Los Angeles marching bands, the film is an impressive and wholly original expansion of O’Daniel’s overall project. As I wrote in the 25 New Face piece, “Sound — as subject matter, metaphor, and structuralist organizing principle — is at the […]
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- 5/14/2024
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Get ready for an intriguing episode of “Independent Lens” as it delves into the captivating world of sound and the art of listening. Airing on PBS at 1:00 Am on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, this installment titled “The Tuba Thieves” promises to offer viewers a thought-provoking exploration of the role of sound in our lives.
Through a series of compelling narratives and insightful interviews, the episode sheds light on the diverse ways in which sound shapes our experiences and influences our perceptions of the world. From the soothing melodies of music to the cacophony of urban environments, “The Tuba Thieves” invites viewers to reflect on the profound impact that sound has on our daily lives.
As the title suggests, the episode also delves into the curious phenomenon of tuba thefts, offering a fascinating glimpse into this unusual and surprisingly widespread occurrence. Through interviews with experts and firsthand accounts from victims, viewers will...
Through a series of compelling narratives and insightful interviews, the episode sheds light on the diverse ways in which sound shapes our experiences and influences our perceptions of the world. From the soothing melodies of music to the cacophony of urban environments, “The Tuba Thieves” invites viewers to reflect on the profound impact that sound has on our daily lives.
As the title suggests, the episode also delves into the curious phenomenon of tuba thefts, offering a fascinating glimpse into this unusual and surprisingly widespread occurrence. Through interviews with experts and firsthand accounts from victims, viewers will...
- 5/14/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Get ready for an intriguing exploration of sound and its significance on the upcoming episode of “Independent Lens,” titled “The Tuba Thieves,” airing on PBS at 10:00 Pm on Monday, May 20th, 2024. In this thought-provoking installment, viewers will delve into the fascinating world of sound and what it truly means to listen.
The episode delves into the role of sound in our lives, examining how it shapes our experiences, emotions, and perceptions of the world around us. From the subtle nuances of everyday sounds to the profound impact of music and speech, “The Tuba Thieves” offers a deep dive into the intricate relationship between sound and human consciousness.
Through compelling storytelling and insightful interviews, the episode sheds light on the ways in which sound influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It challenges viewers to consider the importance of listening not only with our ears but also with our hearts and minds,...
The episode delves into the role of sound in our lives, examining how it shapes our experiences, emotions, and perceptions of the world around us. From the subtle nuances of everyday sounds to the profound impact of music and speech, “The Tuba Thieves” offers a deep dive into the intricate relationship between sound and human consciousness.
Through compelling storytelling and insightful interviews, the episode sheds light on the ways in which sound influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It challenges viewers to consider the importance of listening not only with our ears but also with our hearts and minds,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Guests will include Wim Wenders, Joan Baez, Nathan Fielder.
The 20th anniversary edition of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) includes more than 200 films, of which over 100 are world premieres – the most ever at a single edition of the festival.
The festival will screen 61 titles across five international competition sections: New:Vision, F:Act, Nordic:Dox, Next:Wave and the previously announced Dox:Award titles.
Scroll down for the full list of competition titles
46 of the 61 competition titles are world premieres, with 10 international premieres and five European debuts.
Films directed by women make up 47% of the lineup, with men represented on 38%. Ten percent...
The 20th anniversary edition of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) includes more than 200 films, of which over 100 are world premieres – the most ever at a single edition of the festival.
The festival will screen 61 titles across five international competition sections: New:Vision, F:Act, Nordic:Dox, Next:Wave and the previously announced Dox:Award titles.
Scroll down for the full list of competition titles
46 of the 61 competition titles are world premieres, with 10 international premieres and five European debuts.
Films directed by women make up 47% of the lineup, with men represented on 38%. Ten percent...
- 2/21/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A year ago, amid Coda’s groundbreaking run on the awards circuit, writer/director Sian Heder frequently expressed her hopes that the film’s success could be one of the “rocks that starts the avalanche” of the wealth of talent that exists within the Deaf community, heralding a new wave of deaf talent in Hollywood not only in front of but behind the camera as well.
Delbert Whetter
One of the boldest statements to portend such an avalanche comes through deaf writer-director Alison O’Daniel’s experimental docudrama The Tuba Thieves, which screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s “innovative, forward-thinking” Next program. Whereas cinema frequently portrays life for deaf and hard of hearing people as wholly divorced from sound and music, implying a tragic deficit in their human cultural experience, O’Daniel turns this trope on its head. Her cinematic journey of sound, music and silence deftly weaves...
Delbert Whetter
One of the boldest statements to portend such an avalanche comes through deaf writer-director Alison O’Daniel’s experimental docudrama The Tuba Thieves, which screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s “innovative, forward-thinking” Next program. Whereas cinema frequently portrays life for deaf and hard of hearing people as wholly divorced from sound and music, implying a tragic deficit in their human cultural experience, O’Daniel turns this trope on its head. Her cinematic journey of sound, music and silence deftly weaves...
- 2/14/2023
- by Delbert Whetter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
How Two Sundance-Winning Films Forecast the Future for Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Production Company
Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad has much to celebrate in just the first few months of the new year: with two films, “A Thousand and One” and “Kokomo City” winning big at Sundance; the family film “Chang Can Dunk” launching March 10 on Disney+ ; a documentary about Mary Tyler Moore premiering at SXSW; and a sixth season of “The Chi” on the way.
The company, founded by the actor, producer and Emmy-winning writer in 2015, is at a pinnacle moment, but it’s also just getting started.
“Here’s the really interesting part about the next three months, it’s not like we snapped our fingers and got here,” Hillman Grad CEO Rishi Rajani says, as he and Waithe joined Variety for a discussion over Zoom following the announcement of their Sundance wins. “This next three months is the culmination of the last few years of what Hillman Grad has built.”
He...
The company, founded by the actor, producer and Emmy-winning writer in 2015, is at a pinnacle moment, but it’s also just getting started.
“Here’s the really interesting part about the next three months, it’s not like we snapped our fingers and got here,” Hillman Grad CEO Rishi Rajani says, as he and Waithe joined Variety for a discussion over Zoom following the announcement of their Sundance wins. “This next three months is the culmination of the last few years of what Hillman Grad has built.”
He...
- 2/3/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“The Tuba Thieves” director Alison O’Daniel took inspiration for her feature film from a series of tuba thefts from local LA high schools that she heard about on the radio. But instead of investigating the questions of who the thieves were and where the tubas ended up, she decided to make a film about the impacted band students and directors. Motivated by curiosity of peoples’ experiences with sound, she focused on creating a listening project.
Manuel Castañeda, who plays himself in the film, was one of the first people she contacted about the project. Geovanny Marroquin, one of the main characters, and Aija Jones play themselves as Castañeda’s band students. She also enlisted Nyke (Nyeisha Prince) as a main character, with whom she had worked on a previous film, after remembering Nyke’s experience with drumming. 11 years later, the film premiered at Sundance 2023.
Warren “Wawa” Snipe, who plays fictional character Arcey in the film,...
Manuel Castañeda, who plays himself in the film, was one of the first people she contacted about the project. Geovanny Marroquin, one of the main characters, and Aija Jones play themselves as Castañeda’s band students. She also enlisted Nyke (Nyeisha Prince) as a main character, with whom she had worked on a previous film, after remembering Nyke’s experience with drumming. 11 years later, the film premiered at Sundance 2023.
Warren “Wawa” Snipe, who plays fictional character Arcey in the film,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Before it started, one question about this year’s Sundance concerned attendance: what happens when a more-expensive-to-attend-than-most festival, held in a cold place during winter’s peak at a high altitude, offers the option to stream the bulk of its titles online days later? Brand presence on Main Street appeared to be down (one out of five awnings rather than every single one), and P&i attendance seemed to be as well—but, for many there, the answer was jamming out endless viewings on their tablet or laptop between venturing out for select Irl screenings. Whatever those combined, not-yet-disclosed industry-plus-public streaming numbers were, they […]
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The post Sundance 2023: 5 Seasons of Revolution, My Animal, Selected Shorts, The Tuba Thieves and Milisuthando first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Before it started, one question about this year’s Sundance concerned attendance: what happens when a more-expensive-to-attend-than-most festival, held in a cold place during winter’s peak at a high altitude, offers the option to stream the bulk of its titles online days later? Brand presence on Main Street appeared to be down (one out of five awnings rather than every single one), and P&i attendance seemed to be as well—but, for many there, the answer was jamming out endless viewings on their tablet or laptop between venturing out for select Irl screenings. Whatever those combined, not-yet-disclosed industry-plus-public streaming numbers were, they […]
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The post Sundance 2023: 5 Seasons of Revolution, My Animal, Selected Shorts, The Tuba Thieves and Milisuthando first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The very real news story of tuba thefts occurring at a series of Southern California schools is the inspiration for The Tuba Thieves, visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s feature debut. Yet the film isn’t really about these odd crimes, focusing instead on abstract notions of sound and what is means to “listen,” particularly as it pertains to the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing experience, a theme that has fueled much of O’Daniel’s artistic output. The film’s cinematographer, Derek Howard, discusses how being an outsider to LA helped him capture the city more honestly, the benefits of his documentary background and the […]
The post “The Gorgeous Light of LA Sunsets Always Seemed To Come Too Soon”: Dp Derek Howard on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Gorgeous Light of LA Sunsets Always Seemed To Come Too Soon”: Dp Derek Howard on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The very real news story of tuba thefts occurring at a series of Southern California schools is the inspiration for The Tuba Thieves, visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s feature debut. Yet the film isn’t really about these odd crimes, focusing instead on abstract notions of sound and what is means to “listen,” particularly as it pertains to the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing experience, a theme that has fueled much of O’Daniel’s artistic output. The film’s cinematographer, Derek Howard, discusses how being an outsider to LA helped him capture the city more honestly, the benefits of his documentary background and the […]
The post “The Gorgeous Light of LA Sunsets Always Seemed To Come Too Soon”: Dp Derek Howard on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Gorgeous Light of LA Sunsets Always Seemed To Come Too Soon”: Dp Derek Howard on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A film that rewards patience, The Tuba Thieves, despite its title, is not a quirky heist picture but rather a meditation on the presence and absence of sound framed by both recent and further-removed history. It’s directed by d/Deaf visual artist Alison O’Daniel, who crafts a rich visual and auditory project that’s probably best experienced in an acoustically perfect environment. One might at least need a high-end pair of noise-canceling headphones to simulate the optimal screening venue. Open-captioned by default, The Tuba Thieves is an immersive journey that perhaps approximates the trials of limited hearing with a structure that is either a cinematic meditation or frustrating for those seeking to impose some sense of order over the raw material we’re presented.
Often defying convention, we’re initially told the genesis of the film is a year-spanning string of instrument heists at LA high schools that very likely aren’t related.
Often defying convention, we’re initially told the genesis of the film is a year-spanning string of instrument heists at LA high schools that very likely aren’t related.
- 1/26/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
In visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s debut feature The Tuba Thieves, a local news story serves as the impetus for an abstract investigation into the cultural significance of sound, music, communication and the act of hearing itself. From 2011 through 2013, schools in Southern California experienced a common (and confounding) crime—tubas were stolen en masse, leaving marching bands without their lowest-pitched instrument. When O’Daniel—who is d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing—first listened to the developing news story via car radio, she was immediately intrigued. Yet she wasn’t interested in the conventional questions pertinent to such a crime (e.g. who is stealing these instruments and why?), […]
The post “I Had No Idea How Filmmakers Actually Raise Huge Amounts of Money”: Alison O’Daniel on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Had No Idea How Filmmakers Actually Raise Huge Amounts of Money”: Alison O’Daniel on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/25/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s debut feature The Tuba Thieves, a local news story serves as the impetus for an abstract investigation into the cultural significance of sound, music, communication and the act of hearing itself. From 2011 through 2013, schools in Southern California experienced a common (and confounding) crime—tubas were stolen en masse, leaving marching bands without their lowest-pitched instrument. When O’Daniel—who is d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing—first listened to the developing news story via car radio, she was immediately intrigued. Yet she wasn’t interested in the conventional questions pertinent to such a crime (e.g. who is stealing these instruments and why?), […]
The post “I Had No Idea How Filmmakers Actually Raise Huge Amounts of Money”: Alison O’Daniel on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Had No Idea How Filmmakers Actually Raise Huge Amounts of Money”: Alison O’Daniel on The Tuba Thieves first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/25/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Cinema Guild will release “The Tuba Thieves” in New York City on March 15 with a national rollout to follow.
The captions that appear throughout “The Tuba Thieves” are generous, imaginative, and expansive, giving names to sounds we’re familiar with but have likely never thought to put into words. The sound of ocean waves is described as a “rush and fall.” A mop very specifically “smacks the floor” in the distance. Even when there’s no detectible sound, captions indicate that “air circulates.”
First-time filmmaker (and seasoned visual artist) Alison O’Daniel, who is hard of hearing, offers captions that are tactile, existing in a place beyond pure sound. In doing this, she de-prioritizes hearing audiences, asking them to tune into her work in novel and often confounding ways. At the same time, she centers her film around...
The captions that appear throughout “The Tuba Thieves” are generous, imaginative, and expansive, giving names to sounds we’re familiar with but have likely never thought to put into words. The sound of ocean waves is described as a “rush and fall.” A mop very specifically “smacks the floor” in the distance. Even when there’s no detectible sound, captions indicate that “air circulates.”
First-time filmmaker (and seasoned visual artist) Alison O’Daniel, who is hard of hearing, offers captions that are tactile, existing in a place beyond pure sound. In doing this, she de-prioritizes hearing audiences, asking them to tune into her work in novel and often confounding ways. At the same time, she centers her film around...
- 1/25/2023
- by Susannah Gruder
- Indiewire
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