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Yance Ford Made ‘Strong Island’ to Face Down the Past | The Big Picture (Ep. 50)

February 19, 2018/ 33 min/ Sean Fennessey

Sean sits down with Oscar-nominated director Yance Ford to talk through the decade it took to make Strong Island, a documentary about his brother's 1992 murder.

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Yance Ford on Strong Island

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Yance Ford on

Strong Island 2017

Ford's Oscar-nominated documentary about the 1992 murder of his brother William and the broken case that followed. Ten years in the making; he left his job at PBS's POV in 2012 to finish it full time.

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Yance Ford on

When We Were Kings 1996

Leon Gast's documentary on the 1974 Ali-Foreman fight in Kinshasa. Ford's answer to the show's closing question, having just seen a 35mm restoration at the Museum of the Moving Image.

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