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“Don’t Follow the Rules, Rewrite the Rules” — Sundance Director Alison O'Daniel on Slow Burn Filmmaking by Design, Weaving Captioning into Film Narrative

“Don’t Follow the Rules, Rewrite the Rules” — Sundance Director Alison O'Daniel on Slow Burn Filmmaking by Design, Weaving Captioning into Film Narrative

This week we spoke with Alison O’Daniel, director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at Sundance. O’Daniel is a filmmaker and visual artist. Her work mixes conceptual art practice, narrative storytelling, documentary, and engagement with the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.

The No Film School Podcast

January 26, 202343m 53s

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Show Notes

Recently we were honored to interview the director of Sundance film, The Tuba Thieves, Alison O’Daniel. She shares what it was like to create a film that focused primarily on sound oversight. The Tuba Thieves not only challenges the rules of filmmaking, but it revolutionizes the way we do captioning.


Full transcript available here.


In this episode, we talk about:

  • A film 11 years in the making. Slow burn by design… 
  • The future of captioning and O'Daniel's How to Caption resource
  • Breaking the rules of filmmaking
  • Finding the champions of your project—both with labs and grants, and without ‘em
  • Patient, piecemeal filmmaking

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