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{{Short description|Canadian film director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = DavidTravis Sutherland
| image = Sudz Sutherland at a CFC event in L.A. - Honouring John Fawcett and Graeme Manson (16759132838).jpg
| altcaption = Sudz = Sutherland at a CFCan event for the [[Canadian Film Centre]] in L.A.2015
| captionbirth_name = Sudz Sutherland at a CFC event in= L.A.
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| nationality = Canadian
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| nationality = Canadian
| known_for = [[Doomstown]]<br>[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]<br>[[Guns (TV movie)|Guns]]
| other_names =
| occupation = Film director and screenwriter
| known_for = [[Doomstown]]<br>[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]<br>[[Guns (TV movie)|Guns]]
| occupation = Film director and screenwriter
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'''DavidTravis "Sudz" Sutherland''' is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films ''[[Doomstown]]'', ''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]'', ''[[Guns (TV movie)|Guns]]'', ''Speakers for the Dead'' and ''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]'', as well as episodes of ''[[Drop the Beat]]'', ''[[Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)|Da Kink in My Hair]]'', ''[[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Wild Roses (TV series)|Wild Roses]]'', ''[[Jozi-H]]'', ''[[Reign (TV series)|Reign]]'', ''[[She's the Mayor]]'', ''[[Designated Survivor (TV series)|Designated Survivor]]'', ''[[Shoot the Messenger (TV series)|Shoot the Messenger]]'', ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'', ''[[Frankie Drake Mysteries]]'' and, ''[[Batwoman (TV series)|Batwoman]]'' and ''[[Superman & Lois]]''.<ref name=":0" />
 
He is married to screenwriter and producer [[Jennifer Holness]], his partner in Hungry Eyes Film & Television.<ref>{{Cite web |title=At Home with Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland {{!}} Sway Magazine |url=http://swaymag.ca/2011/04/at-home-with-jennifer-holness-sudz-sutherland/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Sutherland was also profiled on an episode of [[HGTV (Canada)|HGTV]]'s series ''[[Neat (TV series)|Neat]]'', in which professional organizer Hellen Buttigieg reorganized and decluttered his office.
 
== Filmography ==
He is married to screenwriter and producer [[Jennifer Holness]], his partner in Hungry Eyes Film & Television.<ref>[http://swaymag.ca/2011/04/at-home-with-jennifer-holness-sudz-sutherland/ "At Home with Jennifer Holness & Sudz Sutherland"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415075756/http://swaymag.ca/2011/04/at-home-with-jennifer-holness-sudz-sutherland/ |date=2011-04-15 }}. ''Sway'', April 8, 2011.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Work
!Director
!Writer
!Producer
|-
|1998
|''I'm a Big Girl''
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|1998
|''Win/Loss/Tie''
|Yes
|Yes
|Yes
|-
|1999
|''My Father's Hands''
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2000
|''Speakers for the Dead''
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2003
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2006
|''[[Doomstown]]''
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2008
|''[[Toronto Stories]]'': Windows Segment
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2012
|''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]''
|Yes
|Yes
|Yes
|-
|2012
|''[[The Phantoms]]''
|Yes
|No
|No
|}
 
== Television<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Sudz Sutherland |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840075/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Work
!Director
!Writer
!Producer
|-
|2004
|''My Brand New Life (Music for Whose Ears)''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=National Film Board of Canada |date=2012-10-11 |title=National Film Board of Canada |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/ |access-date=2023-02-08}}</ref>
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2005–2007
|''[[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'': Season 4 Episode 17: Queen of Hearts (2005)
Season 4 Episode 18: Modern Love (2005)
 
Season 6 Episode 12: The Bitterest Pill (2007)
 
Season 6 Episode 13: If You Leave (2007)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2007
|''[[Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)|'da Kink in My Hair]]'': Season1 Episode 1: Rules are Made
Season 1 Episode 5: Love Can't Wrap Up in a Paper
 
('''Writer''') Season 1 Episode 6: Every Hoe Have Him Stick
 
('''Writer''') Season 2 Episode 9: Computer Love (2009)
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2008
|''[[Guns (miniseries)|Guns]]''
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2008–2009
|''[[Heartland (Canadian TV series)|Heartland]]'': Season 2 Episode 9: Showdown! (2008)
Season 2 Episode 10: True Enough (2009)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2009
|''[[Wild Roses (TV series)|Wild Roses]]'': Season 1 Episode 12: Time and Chance
Season 1 Episode 13: First and Last
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2011
|''[[She's the Mayor]]'': Season 1 Episode 1: She's the Mayor?
Season 1 Episode 3: The Empress' New Clothes
 
Season 1 Episode 4: Proclamation
 
Season 1 Episode 7: An Officer and a Mayor
 
Season 1 Episode 12: Strange Bedfellows
 
Season 1 Episode 13: The Return of Frank Crumb
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
|2013
|''[[Cracked (Canadian TV series)|Cracked]]'': Season 2 Episode 7 Hideaway
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2010–2014
|''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'': Season 3 Episode 7: Blood and Circuses (2010)
Season 3 Episode 9: Love and Human Remains (2010)
 
Season 7 Episode 13: The Murdoch Sting (2014)
 
Season 7 Episode 15: The Spy Who Came Up to the Cold (2014)
 
Season 8 Episode 4: Holy Matrimony, Murdoch! (2014)
 
Season 8 Episode 5: Murdoch Takes Manhattan (2014)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2014–2015
|''[[Reign (TV series)|Reign]]'': Season 1 Episode 20: Higher Ground (2014)
Season 2 Episode 4: The Lamb and the Slaughter (2014)
 
Season 2 Episode 17: Tempting Fate (2015)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2014–2015
|''[[Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series)|Beauty & the Beast]]'': Season 2 Episode 11: Held Hostage (2014)
Season 3 Episode 11: Unbreakable (2015)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2015
|''[[Haven (TV series)|Haven]]'': Season 5 Episode 21: Close to Home (2015)
Season 5 Episode 22: A Matter of Time (2015)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2016
|''[[Shoot the Messenger (TV series)|Shoot the Messenger]]''
|Yes
|Yes
|Yes
|-
|2017–2018
|''[[Frankie Drake Mysteries]]'': Season 1 Episode 3: Healing Hands (2017)
Season 1 Episode 5: Out of Focus (2017)
 
Season 2 Episode 5: Dressed to Kill (2018)
 
Season 2 Episode 6: Extra Innings (2018)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2018
|''[[In Contempt]]'': Season 1 Episode 3: Confessions
Season 1 Episode 4: The Rules of Engagement
 
Season 1 Episode 9: BLM, Part One
 
Season 1 Episode 10: BLM, Part Two
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2019
|''[[Blindspot (TV series)|Blindspot]]'': Season 4 Episode 18: 'Ohana
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2019
|''[[Designated Survivor (TV series)|Designated Survivor]]'': Season 3 Episode 7: #identity/crisis
Season 3 Episode 8: #scaredsh*tless
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2017–2019
|''[[Private Eyes (TV series)|Private Eyes]]'': Season 2 Episode 6: The P.I. Code (2017)
Season 2 Episode 16: Look Who's Stalking (2018)
 
Season 3 Episode 10: Tex Therapy (2019)
 
Season 3 Episode 11: Aye, Aye, Tonya (2019)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2019
|''[[Carter (TV series)|Carter]]'': Season 2 Episode 9: Harley Doesn't Get His Man (2019)
Season 2 Episode 10: Harley Takes a Bow (2019)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2020
|''[[Utopia Falls]]'': Season 1 Episode 3: 99 Problems
Season 1 Episode 4: Run This Town
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2020
|''[[Batwoman (TV series)|Batwoman]]'': Season 1 Episode 16: Through the Looking Glass
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2020
|''[[For the Record (web series)|For the Record]]'': Season 1 Episode 3: Dinner Music
Season 1 Episode 4: Climax
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2021
|''[[Ginny & Georgia]]'': Season 1 Episode 5: Boo, B*tch
Season 1 Episode 6: I'm Triggered
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2021
|''[[Supergirl (TV series)|Supergirl]]'': Season 6 Episode 3: Phantom Menaces
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2020–2021
|''[[The Flash (2014 TV series)|The Flash]]'': Season 6 Episode 11: Love is a Battlefield (2020)
Season 7 Episode 8: The People V. Killer Frost (2021)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2021
|''[[Kung Fu (2021 TV series)|Kung Fu]]'': Season 1 Episode 12: Sacrifice
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2021–2022
|''[[Legends of Tomorrow]]'': Season 6 Episode 4: Bay of Squids (2021)
Season 7 Episode 12: Too Legit to Quit (2022)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2021-2023
|''[[Superman & Lois]]'': Season 1 Episode 6: Broken Trust (2021)
 
Season 2 Episode 8: Into Oblivion (2022)
 
Season 3 Episode 12: Injustice (2023)
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2022
|''[[BLK, An Origin Story]]'': Season 1 Episode 2: John "Daddy" Hall
 
Season 1 Episode 3: Hogan's Alley
|Yes
|Yes
|Yes
|-
|2022
|''[[FBI: Most Wanted]]'': Season 4 Episode 6: Patent Pending
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2023
|''[[All American (TV series)|All American]]'': Season 5 Episode 19: Sabotage
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2023
|''[[Pretty Hard Cases]]'': Season 3, Episode 8: Badge Bitch Party
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2024
|''[[Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent]]'': Season 1 Episode 5: Bleeding Heart
|Yes
|No
|No
|-
|2024
|''[[Alert: Missing Persons Unit]]'': Season 2 Episode 8: Alexi
|Yes
|No
|No
|}
 
== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Work
!Award/Nomination
!Result
|-
|2000
|''My Father's Hands''
|Acapulco Black Film Festival's Short Film Award
|Winner
|-
|2000
|''[[Drop the Beat]]''
|Gemini Awards Best Writing in a Dramatic Series Award
|Nominated
|-
|2003
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian First Feature Film Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2004
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival Best Canadian Feature Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2004
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|American Black Film Festival Best Film Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2004
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival Best Feature Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2004
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival Audience Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2004
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|San Francisco Black Film Festival Jury Award, Festival Prize
|Nominated
|-
|2005
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Genie Awards Best Achievement in Direction Award
|Nominated
|-
|2005
|''[[Love, Sex and Eating the Bones]]''
|Genie Awards Best Screenplay, Original
|Nominated
|-
|2007
|''[[Doomstown]]''
|Gemini Awards Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Award
|Winner
|-
|2007
|''[[Doomstown]]''
|Gemini Awards Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Award
|Nominated
|-
|2008
| ''[[Guns (miniseries)|Guns]]''
|Writer's Guild of Canada's WGC Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Nominated
|-
|2008
|''[[Guns (miniseries)|Guns]]''
|Director's Guild of Canada's DGC Team Award, Television Movie/Mini-Series
|Nominated
|-
|2010
|''[[Guns (miniseries)|Guns]]''
|Gemini Awards Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Award
|Winner
|-
|2010
| ''[[Guns (miniseries)|Guns]]''
|Gemini Awards Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2012
|''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]''
|Whistler Film Festival Phillip Borsos Award for Best Canadian Film (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Nominated
|-
|2013
|''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]''
|Director's Guild of Canada Direction – Feature Film Award
|Nominated
|-
|2013
|''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]''
|Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival Favourite Feature Film Audience Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Winner
|-
|2013
|''[[Home Again (2012 film)|Home Again]]''
|Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival Best Narrative Feature (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]])
|Nominated
|-
|2013
|''[[The Phantoms]]''
|Director's Guild of Canada Direction – Television Movie/Mini-Series Award
|Nominated
|-
|2014
|''[[The Phantoms]]''
|Canadian Screen Awards Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series Award
|Winner
|-
|2014
|''[[The Phantoms]]''
|International Emmy Awards, Kids: TV Movie/Mini-Series (shared with Timothy M. Hogan, [[Rick LeGuerrier]] and [[Andrew Wreggitt]]
|Winner
|-
|2020
|''[[Stateless (film)|Stateless]]''
|Boston Latino Film Festival's Audience Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]], [[Michèle Stephenson]], [[Joe Brewster]] and Lea Marin)
|Winner
|-
|2021
|''[[Stateless (film)|Stateless]]''
|Canadian Screen Awards Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary Award (shared with [[Jennifer Holness]], [[Michèle Stephenson]], [[Joe Brewster]] and Lea Marin)
|Nominated
|-
|2022
|''[[For the Record (web series)|For the Record]]'', for "''Climax"''
|Canadian Screen Awards Best Direction, Web Program or Series Award
|Nominated
|}
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0840075}}
 
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