Tag: Yance Ford
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I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.
Yance Ford
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I had a list of 10 rules when we started ‘Strong Island,’ and one of them was, ‘Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.’
Yance Ford
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What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country.
Yance Ford
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What ‘Strong Island’ does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we’re treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It’s actually quite old.
Yance Ford
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‘Strong Island’ is not your typical true-crime film. It’s not actually about the uncovering of evidence or following leads that hadn’t been seen before or any of that stuff.
Yance Ford
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‘Trumbo’ is conventional in its structure, mixing interviews with archival footage. What I enjoyed most about the film was its liberal use of his own personal letters to friends and family, performed dramatically by well-known actors.
Yance Ford
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I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there’s no one like your mother.
Yance Ford
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We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.
Yance Ford
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Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn’t extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn’t believe in black exceptionalism. There’s nothing exceptional about ‘You can have that, too’ – except when it comes to justice. You can’t have that.
Yance Ford
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Grief is a very complicated monster. There’s no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.
Yance Ford