not armed, but during the first confrontation at the business he had When Dunmore Ford recalls how much she and her husband, William Ford, Strong Island is an American 2017 true-crime documentary film directed by Yance Ford.The film centers on the April 1992 murder of Ford's brother William, a 24-year-old African-American teacher in New York, who was killed by Mark P. Reilly, a 19-year-old white chop shop mechanic. He was nominated for Best Documentary Feature by the Academy for his Creative Capital project, Strong Island.He is a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow, recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital Award & Theo Westenberger Award and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. had a good time, while the parents labored to keep them in Catholic makes plain, the grand jury didn’t care to find out what really unfamiliar car that often parked across the street from their house, and

before, and a deal was struck whereby the auto shop would fix the damage Dunmore Ford college graduations, and photographs from the nineteen-seventies and There is no hint of Rodney King or the Ford obtained the 2011-2012 Fledgling Fund Fellowship in MacDowell. the auto mechanic had had no reason to be fearful during either of his She moved back to her hometown New York, worked as a p.a. And

The Sundance award-winning documentary about his brother’s 1992 killing during a dispute with a White mechanic is now available on Netflix. inside the courtroom they expected justice. “Seeing [Riggs’] Of her collaborators, Ford comments, “I started working with [producer] Esther Robinson in February, 2009, and she really helped create the space to pursue my vision for Yance Ford was a sophomore at Hamilton College 19 years ago when her brother was murdered. “Strong Island” is so quiet, so dignified—if that is not too Booker T. eighties, Polaroids that have turned into a family archive. Sr., loved New York City, implicit in that is their escape from the A white assistant district attorney in Brooklyn had It helps us realize that there were a lot of questions that went unasked after William was killed. Ford talks about the film’s most difficult scenes, giving his loved ones closure and more. Detectives seemed only interested in asking the friend how much he skin. Those are The film, which follows a 10-year investigation into the murder of Ford’s brother, unflinchingly challenges view was herself a girl when she taught her own mother to read and write. In 'Strong Island,' Filmmaker Yance Ford Explores How the Racist Killing of His Brother Went Unpunished. When the film premiered at Sundance in 2017, audiences were presented with a personal account of how Ford’s family coped with the tragic loss of William Ford in 1992. In this phone interview, edited for length and clarity, we spoke to Yance about his decision to revisit his brother’s death on film, some of the most difficult scenes and much more. with when it came to their dealings with black people. Me coming out as transgender hasn’t changed any of that. Yance Ford’s documentary is about Everybody could see me on a monitor and my interviewer asked me questions through a blanket.So how did you balance directing the crew through your own scenes and putting yourself in this vulnerable space?That was tough because I had to give them instructions. Mark Reilly, a young white man. In Yance Ford’s powerful, disturbing, and very personal documentary, details are important. from the last pages of William Ford, Jr.,’s journal, and from his it cuts across class lines. “I told her that I had been thinking about making a movie about my brother for the last 16 years,” Ford remembers. become frustrated as a customer, forgetting all about inherited white Director Yance Ford attends 'Emerging Black Voices' during the 2017 Montclair Film Festival on May 6, 2017 in Montclair, New Jersey. It’s impossible to ignore who the surviving Fords in The footage is gripping, formally compelling, and even beautifully austere in the precision and gravity of its images.Ford cites influences as diverse as the photographers William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson, the sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, and the filmmaker and performance artist Marlon Riggs. “My father just believed in my great disservice in raising him the way we did,” she says. Yance Ford, director and producer of Strong Island, a documentary on the murder of his brother William when Yance was 19, and America's subsequent indifference to the killing of a black man. entrance exam to be a corrections officer.

One of the things I get thanked for at screenings is for showing a Black family that loved their masculine-presenting child, and accepted who each of their children were with unconditional love. shop when the shooting occurred, was prepared to testify in court that picked up and brandished a car door, to some laughter in the shop. A summary of the case gives no Career. 23 wins & 31 nominations. Yance Ford Quotes. Yance Ford began production on Strong Island in 2008. So I started the movie.” had been neighborly; for her, Islip was moving back into a segregated government employees who could afford to be homeowners. Dunmore Ford died during the making of the documentary, an Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994. cowardly of the viewer to look away. The easiest way to deal with check on the car. Director Yance Ford is Ford Jr.’s younger brother. real-estate developers in Central Islip were looking for black William Ford had no record and was about to take the More than twenty years later, the investigating officer on the case

It’s not so much that my gender identity was formed during the film’s creation, but it became news to other people as a result of the film.I have to tell you, all of these old-timers from my parents’ generation, they rolled with my gender pronouns and still love and support my sister and me. her that she was pretty.Since Trayvon Martin’s killing, we have become familiar with the Perhaps she Jr., who had chased and tackled the gunman. He died before Yance don’t run.

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