Yance Ford
he/him

Yance Ford is a Black trans man with dark brown skin in front of a black background. He is bald wearing a navy blue suit and a white button up with small light blue dots.

Job title
director  
Identity categories
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transgender man   Black  
Places of practice

United States of America

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Yance Ford is a Black trans man with dark brown skin in front of a black background. He is bald wearing a navy blue suit and a white button up with small light blue dots.

Yance Ford is a Black trans man with dark brown skin in front of a black background. He is bald wearing a navy blue suit and a white button up with small light blue dots.

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Biography

Yance Ford director/producer based in New York City. His debut film Strong Island won a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize and 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 openly transgender director nominated for the Oscar. Strong Island won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Ford is a MacDowell fellow, a member of the Sundance Institute Collective, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. His profile of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich can be seen in the Netflix series Trial by Media. Ford directed the 90's: Culture Wars episode of the FX series Pride premiering May 14, 2021.

Ford, Yance. “Yance Ford.” IMDb. Accessed May 17, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3496466/bio/.
Filmography
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    Strong Island

    film/video, 2017

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story

  • FTP

    TV episode, 2021

    Director

References
Pinckney, Darryl. “Yance Ford’s ‘Strong Island’ Is a Form of Justice.” The New Yorker, September 19, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/yance-fords-strong-island-is-a-form-of-justice.