SYNOPSIS
Delve into the untold history of American policing in this thought-provoking documentary that asks, "Who is more powerful: the people — or the police?"
Director: Yance Ford
Language: English
Duration: 90 MINS
Year: 2024
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
FILM DETAILS
Date: Sunday - October 20, 2024
Time: 5:15 PM​
Venue: Plainfield High School
950 Park Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07060
SCREENING DETAILS
About the Director
Yance Ford is an Oscar nominated director and producer based in New York City. His debut film Strong Island won the 2017 Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award, the Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and the Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best Doc. Strong Island was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards, where Ford made history as the first transgender director nominated for an Oscar. Strong Island won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Film and was nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award.
At the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors, Ford became the first nominee ever to win Best Direction, Best Debut, and Best Feature.
His work can be seen in the FX series Pride, the Netflix series Trial by Media, the Apple+ series The Me You Can't See, the Showtime comedy Work In Progress, and the documentary The Color of Care on The Smithsonian Channel. Ford was a staff writer in the HBO mini-room for adapting the bestselling novel The Vanishing Half.