Black Mothers
Logline
Violence. Outrage. Impunity. Repeat. BLACK MOTHERS follows the journey of two women working to disrupt the cycle of racist violence within our country's injustice system. As one mother navigates the aftermath of her son’s attack by local police, the other channels her grief into organizing other mothers to fight for—and win—concrete change and justice.
Débora Souza Silva
Director, Producer
Débora Souza Silva is a filmmaker whose work examines systemic racism and inequality. Her work has appeared on PBS, BBC, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Fusion. She is a recipient of the Les Payne Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and was selected for a NYT Institute Fellowship. She started her career as a TV-reporter in Brazil before moving to California for a Masters in Journalism at UC Berkeley.
David Felix Sutcliffe
Producer
David Felix Sutcliffe is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose films have been broadcast globally and translated into nearly 20 languages. His debut film (T)ERROR, co-directed with Lyric R. Cabral, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and was purchased by Netflix. His work has been funded by Sundance, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Open Society Foundation. David is a former Sundance Edit Lab and Creative Producing Lab Fellow and was a 2018 Soros Equality Fellow and a 2017-2019 Pew Fellow.