2015

(T)ERROR

ABOUT

(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of "Shariff", a 63-year-old Black Panther turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government's counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them, illuminating the fragile relationships between the individual and a new surveillance state in modern America. Who is watching the watchers?

Program Feature
Runtime 1:24
Country United States
Language English

Lyric R Cabral has over a decade of experience documenting the intersections of race and surveillance in the post 9-11 world. Cabral’s debut film (T)ERROR, the first film to portray an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation, won the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature, the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Cabral’s work has appeared on PBS, BBC, VICELAND, Pivot, and National Geographic Channel UK, amongst others. She is currently directing THE RASHOMON EFFECT, exploring the shooting death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson.

David Felix Sutcliffe is a Sundance and Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentary producer and director. His debut film (T)ERROR, co-directed with Lyric R. Cabral, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens and was acquired by Netflix. He was a consulting producer on QUEST (POV, 2018), and CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu, 2018). His work has been funded by the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute, BBC Storyville, ITVS, the Bertha Foundation, Doc Society, and the Open Society Foundation. His films have been broadcast globally and translated into nearly 20 languages. David is a former Sundance Edit Lab and Creative Producing Lab Fellow, and was a 2018 Soros Equality Fellow and a 2017-2019 Pew Fellow.

CREDITS

Director
Lyric R. Cabral
David Sutcliffe
Producer
Christopher St. John
Editor
Nyneve Minnear
Jean-Philippe Boucicaut
David Felix Sutcliffe

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