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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Award-winning filmmaker Yance Ford. Ford is best known for his Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary Strong Island. The feature premiered at Sundance in 2017 and is a Netflix Original. The feature docu chronicles the 1992 murder of Ford’s brother and the failure of the…

Strong Island director Yance Ford didn't come away with the Oscar for Best Documentary in March, but he did make history—becoming the first openly trans filmmaker nominated for an Academy Award. Ford's film—about the racially-charged killing of his brother William in 1992 and what his death did to the Ford family—not…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated director Yance Ford has been signed by ICM Partners. Ford is in the Academy Award running this year for Best Documentary for his film Strong Island, an investigation of the 1992 murder of his brother, 24-year-old William Ford Jr. and its effect on his family. Strong Island won the Gotham…

In a year of firsts for the Academy Awards, more history is being made in the ranks of Best Documentary Feature than perhaps any other category. Take Agnès Varda, for starters—co-director of Faces Places with artist-photographer JR. At age 89 she may well qualify as the oldest nominee in a competitive category in…

Strong Island, director Yance Ford’s decade-long examination into the murder of his brother and the impact of the crime on his family, won three major awards tonight at the 11th Annual Cinema Eye Honors. Overall, Netflix received more awards than any other distributor, winning a total of six awards. At a…

Usually by this stage of awards season, a couple of documentaries have emerged as solid favorites. Last year, it was O.J.: Made in America and I Am Not Your Negro. The year before, Amy and The Look of Silence. This year, it looks like anybody's game. "It’s a much more open field this year in terms of what’s being…

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Strong Island, Yance Ford's documentary that premiered at Sundance and is set to screen Sunday at New York’s New Directors/New Films fest. The film will launch globally on Netflix and in limited theatrical release in the fall. In Strong Island, Ford chronicles his family’s…