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

“These are the captions I have always dreamed of.”

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. During the festival, after the members of the Sundance jury walked out of a premiere after the festival failed to provide captioning for juror Marlee Matlin, O’Daniel published a column in Variety about how both film festivals and movie theaters need open captions.

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Author: GG Hawkins
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.

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