Director

Yance Ford

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 5All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 1717192

IMDb ID: nm3496466

Known for: Directing

Born: April 13, 1972

Age: 53

Place of birth: Long Island, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1988 - 2024

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.89

Wikidata: Q38053759

Also known as

Янс Форд

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Director (8)Creative Consultant (1)

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Biography

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."