Yance Ford
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 13, 1972
- Birthplace
- Long Island, New York, USA
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."
Filmography
- Two Butterflies
Two Butterflies TBA
Director
Power 2024
as Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
The Color of Care 2022
Director, Producer
Disclosure 2020
as Self - Filmmaker, Creative Consultant
Strong Island 2017
as Himself, Director, Producer
- The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández 2007
Producer
Credits from TMDB.