
Person
Yance Ford
Directing · Born 1972-04-13 · Long Island, New York, USA
Biography
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."
Known for

Point of View
Director

Work in Progress
Director

Disclosure
Self - Filmmaker

Pride
Director

The Me You Can't See
Director
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
Producer

Trial by Media
Director

Power
Narrator (voice)

Strong Island
Himself

The Color of Care
Director
Filmography
- 2024PowerNarrator (voice)
- 2022The Color of CareDirector
- 2021The Me You Can't SeeDirector
- 2021PrideDirector
- 2020DisclosureSelf - Filmmaker
- 2020Trial by MediaDirector
- 2019Work in ProgressDirector
- 2017Strong IslandHimself
- 2007The Ballad of Esequiel HernándezProducer
- 1988Point of ViewDirector
- —Two ButterfliesDirector
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