Yance Ford is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning director and producer whose work spans over two decades in documentary film. Ford’s work can be seen on Netflix, Showtime, FX, Apple TV+, and the Smithsonian Channel.
His debut film Strong Island premiered at Sundance, won a Primetime Emmy and the Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and was nominated for an Academy Award for its searing inquiry into race, justice, and grief. In 2024, Ford directed and produced Power, a Netflix documentary tracing the origins of American policing. It premiered at Sundance to critical acclaim, with The L.A. Times calling it “the definitive popular history of policing in America… urgent, astute, capacious, captivating.”
Ford’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the John and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, Cinereach, and others. A MacDowell, Sundance, and Guggenheim Fellow, Ford is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America. He resides in New York City with his wife and cat.