David Felix Sutcliffe
David Felix Sutcliffe is a media educator and an independent documentary filmmaker. His first film, ADAMA, was broadcast on PBS World in November 2011, and featured the story of a 16-year-old Muslim girl growing up in Harlem who was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of being a "potential suicide bomber." He has received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Independent Television Service. 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. He has been honored with a National Scholastic Art and Writing award for his work as a media educator and is currently working as a teaching artist with the Tribeca Film Institute. He has worked as a cinematographer on films in Paris, Indonesia, and Kansas and his work has been broadcast on PBS, BET, and Al-Jazeera. He is currently working on his second feature-length film.




