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David Felix Sutcliffe is a Sundance and Emmy Award-winning producer. He is committed to ambitious and urgent cinematic storytelling that interrogate colonial norms and center filmmakers historically excluded from western media. His work has been distributed by Netflix, Hulu, POV, BBC, CANAL+ and featured in The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, CNN, This American Life and Democracy Now. His films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, True/False, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, and received funding from the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute, BBC Storyville, ITVS, and the Open Society Foundation among others. David is an Independent Spirit Award nominee, a former Sundance Edit Lab and Creative Producing Lab Fellow, a Soros Equality Fellow, a Pew Fellow, one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and the recipient of the International Documentary Association’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker of the Year Award.

David’s feature debut (T)ERROR (co-directed with Lyric R. Cabral) exposed corrupt FBI entrapment tactics, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature. (T)ERROR also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and was acquired by Netflix. Variety Magazine praised the film as "a vital exposé" and Newsweek said it was "astounding", declaring it one of the best documentaries of the year. He was a co-producer on Rodrigo Reyes’ 499 (Cinema Guild, 2021), and a consulting producer on Jonathan Olshefski’s QUEST (POV, 2018), and Stephen Maing’s CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu, 2018). Recent credits include Débora Souza Silva’s FOR OUR CHILDREN (Array/Netflix, 2024) and Contessa Gayles’ forthcoming visual album documentary SONGS FROM THE HOLE (SXSW 2024 Visions Audience Award Winner). He is currently producing Daniel Chein and Mark Mushiva Ya Mushiva’s sci-fi documentary TIME HUNTER (Facet and Sundance-supported).

David grew up with six sisters in a mixed-race, working class family in upstate New York. He is interested in redistributing narrative capital, and learning more about racial capitalism. David is an alumni of the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training for White Organizers.

David is a new father and loves to dance.