The new documentary “Power,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, takes an unflinching look at the origins and expansion of policing across American history. Directed by Yance Ford, the film ...
An Academy Award-nominated filmmaker with True/False Film Fest bonafides will lead the festival's creative team heading into next year's event. Yance Ford was named visiting artistic director for the ...
Logline: Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power. Distributor: Netflix Panelist ...
"Is your America and my America the same place? Has it ever been?" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for the documentary film titled Power, the latest from acclaimed doc filmmaker Yance Ford - ...
What is the purpose of police in the U.S.? To ensure public safety, many people might answer. But that’s a thoroughly misleading definition in the view of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford. In his ...
Charting the history of policing in America, the new documentary "Power" is rooted in questions: Who exactly are the police meant to serve? And whose interests are they protecting? Utilizing an essay ...
“Urgent” is the kind of description that gets applied often to documentary content, which skews toward catalyzing positive change. But over the past few years, the genre has taken on new gravity—with ...
Coming straight from Sundance with their respective buzzy docs “Power” – a Netflix Original – and “Union,” U.S. director/producer Yance Ford and his Canadian counterpart Brett Story delivered March 20 ...
Yance Ford is the first transgender director to receive an Oscar nomination, for his documentary “Strong Island.” The film is a brutal, intimate portrait of the unraveling of his tight-knit family ...
Yance Ford, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, has been named visiting artistic director for the 2026 True/False Film Fest. Ragtag Film Society, the nonprofit organization that runs the film festival, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In the Oscar-nominated documentary "Strong Island," Yance Ford stares back at the camera with profound sorrow and unshakable resilience. "Strong Island," a Netflix release, is Ford's ...