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The Tuba Thieves

By Alison O’Daniel. A co-production of Open Captions LLC, Louverture Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, FACET and ITVS.

What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of THE TUBE THIEVES isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself.