(T)ERROR
New York Premiere

(T)ERROR

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| USA | 84 MINUTES | English
Female Director(s), Documentary, NY Director(s), African American Director(s)
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, (T)ERROR follows a 63-year-old FBI informant from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh on an assignment to befriend a suspected Taliban sympathizer. Yet first-time filmmaking team Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe soon conducts an investigation of its own. Without notifying their subject or the FBI, they interview the suspect and set the statements of the watched against the opinions of the watchers, until that inevitable moment when the Feds decide how to act on their information. A rare inside look at FBI undercover tactics in progress, (T)ERROR offers a thought-provoking analysis of the FBI as crime stoppers rather than investigators in post-9/11 America. Cabral and Sutcliffe create an impressive and courageous documentary that underlines the troubling results of an all-anti-terror mandate: a reliance on past offenders for access and new agents, a growing tendency to equate suspicion with guilt, a scandal-driven press, and methods that stretch the definition of entrapment. Intense and intricately crafted, (T)ERRORr explores just how far we are going to prevent terror and exactly what liberties we are sacrificing to get there.

—Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

Cast & Credits
Directed by
David Felix Sutcliffe and Lyric R. Cabral
David Felix Sutcliffe is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores issues of national security post-9/11. Lyric R. Cabral is a documentary filmmaker and a photojournalist. Both have been named Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." (T)ERROR is their first feature together.
Director
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Producer
Christopher St. John
Editor
Laura Minnear, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut
Cinematographer
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Executive Producer
Eugene Jarecki
Composer
Robert Miller
Co-Producer
Shirel Kozak

Contacts
US Sales Contact
Tristen Tuckfield
30WEST
Phone: 310 651 7045
ttuckfield@30west.com
International Sales Contact
Annie Roney
ROCO Films
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 415 720 2121
annie@rocofilms.com
Print Source
David Felix Sutcliffe
Stories Seldom Seen
Bronx, 10451
Phone: 301 830 2686
davidfelixsutcliffe@gmail.com
Press Contact
Susan Norget
Susan Norget Film Promotion
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 917 833 3056
susan@norget.com
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Beacon Theatre
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