Tag: Yance Ford
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Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the ‘Strong Island’ team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.
Yance Ford
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My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.
Yance Ford
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Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.
Yance Ford
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I would hate for people to think that ‘Strong Island’ is just about a family’s grief. It is about a family’s grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.
Yance Ford
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It’s important that people understand that ‘Strong Island’ is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family’s grief.
Yance Ford
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It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
Yance Ford
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‘Strong Island’ is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of – what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
Yance Ford
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I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing.
Yance Ford
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I worked at ‘POV’ for five years before I told one person about my brother.
Yance Ford
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When I was young, I didn’t see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies.
Yance Ford