Sudz Sutherland

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Sudz Sutherland

David "Sudz" Sutherland, a Toronto-born filmmaker, discovered his passion for storytelling through high school theatre. He studied film at York University, collaborating with Jennifer Holness, his wife, on music videos and shorts. Their acclaimed short film "My Father’s Hands" received nominations and awards, marking his rise in filmmaking. In 2003, he directed the well-received "Love, Sex and Eat…

Known For

40 Acres40 Acres · 2025
40 Acres
6.72025
MovieActionThriller
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
Love, Sex, and Eating the BonesLove, Sex, and Eating the Bones · 2003
Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones
4.32003
MovieComedyRomance
A sexy urban comedy about how a guy who is addicted to watching pornography discovers love is stronger than fantasy when he meets and falls in love with the girl of his dreams.
Home AgainHome Again · 2012
Home Again
4.12012
MovieDrama
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from writer-director Sudz Sutherland. (TIFF)
The PhantomsThe Phantoms · 2012
The Phantoms
7.02012
MovieDramaTV Movie
The Phantoms is a television movie inspired by the heart-warming, real-life events surrounding the 2009 New Brunswick provincial championship victory by the Bathurst High School (BHS Phantoms) boys varsity basketball team, a year after a terrible road accident takes the lives of seven players and the coach’s wife. In the following school year, as tragedy hangs over the community, the BHS Phantoms are reconstituted. The ragtag bunch of players gels as a team, and manages to lift community spirit on the long road to the provincial basketball finals.
Toronto StoriesToronto Stories · 2008
Toronto Stories
3.52008
MovieDrama
Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.
Subjects of DesireSubjects of Desire · 2021
Subjects of Desire
6.02021
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Subjects of Desire is a thought provoking film that examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthetics and features, deconstructing what we understand about race and the power behind beauty.
Speakers for the DeadSpeakers for the Dead · 2000
Speakers for the Dead
9.02000
MovieDocumentary
A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the resulting turmoil over it.
StatelessStateless · 2020
Stateless
5.02020
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.

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