(T)ERROR

(T)ERROR (2015)

Under Cover. Under Threat.

This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.

Date of release
2015-01-24
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Documentary
Director
David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance Special Jury Prize Documentary

(T)error – stylized as (T)ERROR – is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe. The film follows undercover FBI informant Saeed "Shariff" Torres as he engages in a sting operation targeting a Muslim man named Khalifah Ali Al-Akili as well as Tarik Shah. The film won the Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered.

Background

Co-director Cabral was a student living in Harlem when her downstairs neighbor of four years, Saeed Torres, disappeared in May 2005. Cabral's investigation into his disappearance eventually became the subject of her film. Shortly before Torres' disappearance, Sutcliffe and Cabral met at an afterschool arts program, where one of their students, Adama Bah, a 16-year-old Muslim teenage girl was arrested by the FBI and accused of being a "potential"…

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