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The Tuba Thieves(2023)

Sparked by a real string of tuba thefts from Los Angeles high schools, hard-of-hearing filmmaker Alison O'Daniel builds a genre-bending film that is less about the crimes than about sound, deafness, and who gets to decide what listening means. Made with open captions and an audio description track as part of the work itself, not an add-on, with ASL interpretation at screenings. Aired on PBS Independent Lens. Formally adventurous disability cinema.