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June 13, 2020
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About Yance Ford
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.[5] He also received the 2011–2012 Fledgling Fund Fellowship at MacDowell.[4]
In 2017 he was #97 on The Root 100, an "annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45."[7]
In 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing Strong Island, which he also directed.[8][9] As such, he was the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and the first openly transgender director to be nominated for any Academy Award.[10] Also in 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were awarded an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for producing Strong Island, which made him the first openly transgender man and the first black openly transgender person to win an Emmy award, as well as the first openly transgender filmmaker to win a Creative Arts Emmy.[11][12][13] Strong Island is about the murder of his brother William Ford, which occurred in 1992.[9]
He has also received a Creative Capital Award, and a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellowship.
Ford directed an episode of the 2020 documentary series, Trial By Media, titled "Blago!", about the media furor over the court case against Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich.
The forces of family, grief and racial injustice converge in this Oscar-nominated documentary exploring the murder of filmmaker Yance Ford's brother.
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