Lyric R. Cabral

Lyric R. Cabral

History

Lyric R. Cabral is an investigative, nonfiction storyteller whose work examines the intersections of race and surveillance post 9-11. Cabral’s debut film (T)ERROR, the first film to portray an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation, is a 2017 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. (T)ERROR was winner of a 2015 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature and the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Cabral has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and their recent work has appeared on BBC, PBS, and VICE.com. Lyric is also a photojournalist whose images are held in collection at the Studio Museum of Harlem, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Gordon Parks Foundation. Cabral is now directing The Rashomon Effect, an immersive examination of the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Source: https://dxfest.com/speaker/lyric-cabral/

Profile

Lyric R. Cabral
Lyric R. Cabral

Movies

Down a Dark Stairwell
Down a Dark Stairwell
Camera Operator
Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law.
The Feeling of Being Watched
The Feeling of Being Watched
Consulting Producer
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI.
(T)ERROR
(T)ERROR
Director
This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.
Out in the Night
Out in the Night
Camera Operator
Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians'.
The Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect
Director
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?