“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.

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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