Yance Ford
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 MacDowel
l. In 2017 he was #97 on The Root 100, an "annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45."
Born
Apr 13, 1972
Long Island, New York, USA
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Directing
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3 acting
10 crew
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