Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford has been named visiting artistic director of the 2026 edition of True/False, the ...

An Academy Award-nominated filmmaker with True/False Film Fest bona fides will lead the festival's creative team heading into ...

On Sept. 15, Netflix dropped new documentary Strong Island, a film that examines the death of William Ford Jr. and his family’s struggle to navigate the judicial system that allowed his killer ...

Director Yance Ford chronicles the arc of his family across history, geography and tragedy - from the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South to the promise of New York City; from the presumed ...

After George Floyd death, there was a change in policing, filmmaker says. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, filmmaker Yance Ford says he observed the police response to protests across the ...

Netflix's Strong Island chronicles director Yance Ford's 10-year investigation into his brother's killing Chris Harris has been a senior true crime reporter for PEOPLE since late 2015. An award ...

'Behind the Lens' with Oscar nominee Yance Ford Yance Ford is the first transgender filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar with his documentary, "Strong Island," which chronicles his own ...

Yance Ford’s “Strong Island” lays bare the ways in which race and American justice often inharmoniously intersect. Photograph courtesy Cinetic Media ...

Director Yance Ford, photographed in New York City in May. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times) And that's what started the line of questioning that turned into the film.

With the Oscar-nominated Strong Island, transgender filmmaker Yance Ford gives his brother the fair treatment the U.S. legal system failed to provide By André Hereford on February 15, 2018 ...

Director Yance Ford the first openly trans director to have a film earn an Oscar nomination. He is nominated for best doc “Strong Island”.

Life for Yance Ford and his family was “normal” before 1992. As one of three kids, he and his brother and sister were just your everyday Gen-X, latchkey kids in Long Island, N.Y., who would ...