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 magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film He also received the 20112012 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