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Yance Ford
Long Island, New York, USA
Yance Ford (/ˈjænsi/; 13 April 1972; Long Island) is an American documentary filmmaker. In 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Fea…
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Yance Ford (/ˈjænsi/; 13 April 1972; Long Island) is an American documentary filmmaker. In 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing and directing Strong Island. Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994. Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years. In 2011 he was named one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He also received the 2011–2012 Fledgling Fund Fellowship at MacDowell. In 2017 he was #97 on The Root 100, an "annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45."
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2024
Power
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
The Color of Care
Movie Director
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2021
The Me You Can't See
TV show Director
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2021
Pride
TV show Director
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2020
Disclosure
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2020
Trial by Media
TV show Director
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2019
Work in Progress
TV show Director
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2017
Strong Island
Movie Himself
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2007
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
Movie Producer
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1988
Point of View
TV show Director
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Two Butterflies
Movie Director
