Alison O’Daniel, a filmmaker and visual artist, is the director of The Tuba Thieves, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 and was broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS and Arte in France. The Tuba Thieves screened at festivals across the globe, including CPH Dox, MOMA Doc Fortnight, SFFILM, Biografilm, Doc Leipzeig, IDFA and many others. O’Daniel is d/Deaf and builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary in her work that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the ear. She is a United States Artist Disability Futures Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. O’Daniel has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She has developed projects in various labs, including Points North; Sundance Talent Forum; True/False/Catapult Editing Lab, and has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council Gallery in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor in the Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.