Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford has been named visiting artistic director of the 2026 edition of True/False, the ...

An Academy Award-nominated filmmaker with True/False Film Fest bona fides will lead the festival's creative team heading into ...

'Behind the Lens' with Oscar nominee Yance Ford Yance Ford is the first transgender filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar with his documentary, "Strong Island," which chronicles his own ...

Strong Island filmmaker Yance Ford made history as the first openly trans man to be nominated for an Academy Award and tonight he made history once again for being the first openly trans man — a ...

Directed by Yance Ford, the film argues that maintaining social order and control has been the driving force behind policing in the U.S. since its inception.

Filmmaker Yance Ford interviewed his mother for ‘Strong Island,’ about his brother’s killing. “I had a lot of her being sad and not enough of her righteous anger,” Ford says.

With the Oscar-nominated Strong Island, transgender filmmaker Yance Ford gives his brother the fair treatment the U.S. legal system failed to provide By André Hereford on February 15, 2018 ...

Life for Yance Ford and his family was “normal” before 1992. As one of three kids, he and his brother and sister were just your everyday Gen-X, latchkey kids in Long Island, N.Y., who would ...

Yance Ford’s older brother William was killed in 1992, an unarmed African- American shot by a white man during an argument at a New York auto body shop on Long Island. The shooter claimed he’d ...

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 will lead the programming team in curating the 30-plus nonfiction film lineup for the 23rd year of True/False Film Fest.