David Felix Sutcliffe
(Professional)
Bio
Public Bio
David Felix Sutcliffe is an independent documentary filmmaker and a youth media educator. His first film, ADAMA, was broadcast on PBS World in November 2011. He is currently working as a teaching artist with the Tribeca Film Institute. He has received artist grants from BBC, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Tribeca Film Institute, and the Independent Television Service. He has worked as a cinematographer on films in Paris, Indonesia, and Kansas. In June 2011, he was invited by FilmAid International to conduct a series of personal documentary workshops with refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan in Dadaab Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. His work has been broadcast on PBS, BET, and Al-Jazeera. He is currently working on his second feature-length documentary, (T)ERROR, which captures the unraveling of an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation, and the dramatic aftermath that occurs when the target of the investigation realizes that a government informant is setting him up.