(T)ERROR

director: David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral

original title: (T)ERROR

country: United States

year: 2015

running time: 84 min.

synopsis

Saeed “Shariff” Torres, a former Black Panther member, is now working for the FBI. His task is to discover signs of terrorism in American Muslim communities. This reportage captures the dimension of paranoia that exists in the USA’s security police in the best tradition of the American investigative reporting style. The director reveals undemocratic principles underpinning the functioning of American democracy.The attempt to uncover a crime before it occurs becomes an exercise in chasing phantoms, leads to a distortion of facts, and spreads feelings of fear amongst often innocent people.

DETAIL:
“Do you think your present right now is in any way related to your past?” “Well, I don't have a past, I don't even wanna make bring it back up. I really don't.”

biography

Lyric R. Cabral is a New York photographer. The film (T)ERROR is her debut work. David Felix Sutcliffe who co-directed the documentary lives in Philadelphia. His previous work includes the film Adama (2011), covering the story of a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl accused of being a ‘potential suicide bomber’. (T)ERROR received a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

more about film

director:	David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral
producer:	Christopher St. John, Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
editing:	Laura Minnear, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut
music:	Robert Miller
sound:	Frisly Soberanis

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