Documentary on controversial FBI terror sting to screen in Philly
We are finally able to take a big-screen look at the anatomy of FBI entrapment vis-à-vis the ‘War on Terror’ — and it’s about damned time.
A recent New York Times film review describes (T)ERROR as a “real-life thriller” directed, produced, and shot by filmmakers Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe, as
…the first documentary to embed filmmakers in an F.B.I. counterterrorism operation, [and] follows Saeed Torres, a former Black Panther and self-described “civilian operative” who says he works as a paid undercover informant.
Saeed Torres’ target is 34-year-old Khalifah al-Akili, a white Muslim convert living in Pittsburgh, PA. Once Torres begins his work on al-Akili, viewers are pulled into the dark and very disturbing world of a terror sting. These operations irrevocably damage the lives of innocent Muslim Americans like al-Akili, who become ensnared in what journalist Trevor Aaronson calls the FBI’s ‘Terror Factory’.
(T)ERROR explores just how far we are going to prevent terror and exactly what liberties we are sacrificing to get there.
The film debuts here at the Philadelphia Film Society’s Roxy Theater on Saturday, October 24th, followed by a screening Sunday, November 1st.
Watch the trailer below and check out This American Life’s interview with Cabral and Sutcliffe (skip forward to Act 2).
