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Yance Ford

Yance Ford

Actor, Director, Producer

Born April 13, 1972 in Long Island, New York, USA

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Yance Ford is an Oscar nominated director and producer based in New York City. His debut film Strong Island won the 2017 Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, the Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and the Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best Doc. Strong Island was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards, where Ford made history as the first transgender director nominated for an Oscar. Strong Island won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Film and was nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award.

At the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors, Ford became the first nominee ever to win Best Direction, Best Debut, and Best Feature.

His work can be seen in the FX series Pride, the Netflix series Trial by Media, the Apple+ series The Me You Can't See, the Showtime comedy Work In Progress, and the documentary The Color of Care on The Smithsonian Channel. Ford was a staff writer in the HBO mini-room for adapting the bestselling novel The Vanishing Half.

Yance is a former Series Producer at the documentary anthology series POV where, during his tenure with the series, his curatorial work at POV garnered 5 Emmy Awards and 16 Emmy nominations.

Ford is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and Sundance Institute Fellow and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. His work has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, Cinereach, The Ford Foundation, and others.

Ford is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America. His next feature film is a Netflix Original documentary set for release in 2023.

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20 wins and 26 nominations

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Filmography

Actor

5

Type

Year

Disclosure Poster

Disclosure Documentary2020Self - Filmmaker

The Oscars Poster

The Oscars TV Special2018Self - Nominee

Strong Island Poster

Strong Island Documentary2017Self

Red Carpet Report Poster

Red Carpet Report TV Series2009Self

Democracy Now! Poster

Democracy Now! TV Series2001Self

Director

7

Type

Year

Power Feature Film2024

The Color of Care Poster

The Color of Care Feature Film2022

Pride Mini-Series2021

The Me You Can't See Poster

The Me You Can't See Mini-Series2021

Trial by Media Poster

Trial by Media TV Series2020

Work in Progress Poster

Work in Progress TV Series2019

Strong Island Poster

Strong Island Documentary2017

Thanks

8

Type

Year

Angels Are Made Of Light Poster

Angels Are Made Of Light Documentary2018

Hale County This Morning, This Evening Poster

Hale County This Morning, This Evening Documentary2018

Risk Documentary2016

Shadow World Poster

Shadow World Documentary2016

White Sun Poster

White Sun Feature Film2016

Citizenfour Poster

Citizenfour Documentary2014

The Loving Story Poster

The Loving Story Documentary2011

P.O.V. TV Series1988

Producer

4

Type

Year

Power Feature Film2024

Strong Island Poster

Strong Island Documentary2017

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández Poster

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández Documentary2007

P.O.V. TV Series1988

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2

Type

Year

Disclosure Poster

Disclosure Documentary2020

Independent Lens Poster

Independent Lens TV Series1999

Writer

1

Power Feature Film2024

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