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 ...

Ford, a 22-year-old black man, was shot and killed by a 19-year-old white man — a mechanic named Mark Reilly — after a verbal altercation. But an all-white grand jury declined to indict Reilly ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Strong Island director Yance Ford didn’t come away with the Oscar for Best Documentary in March, but he did make history—becoming the first openly trans filmmaker nominated for an Academy Award.

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 ...

Ford will lead the programming team in curating the 30-plus nonfiction film lineup for the 23rd year of True/False Film Fest.