We are happy to announce that Yance Ford’s Netflix documentary Strong Island is nominated for a Grierson Award in the category Best Single Documentary - International.
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YANCE FORD’S ‘STRONG ISLAND’ WINS AN EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING AT THE EMMYS /
We are proud to announce Yance Ford’s Strong Island has received an Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Emmys 2018 which was announced on the 9th of September in Los Angeles.
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We are so happy to announce that Yance Ford's Strong Island has just been named as one of the nominees for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Academy Awards.
Read More'STRONG ISLAND' WINS 3 CINEMA EYE HONORS /
Last night Yance Ford's amazing and very personal documentary Strong Island won an extraordinary 3 Cinema Eye Awards. The film won in the categories Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Direction and Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film.
Read More'STRONG ISLAND' WINS GOTHAM AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY /
Yance Ford's amazing Strong Island won the award for Best Documentary at the Gotham Independent Film Awards on Sunday night, November 26 2017.
In his acceptance speech director Yance Ford said: "There is nothing exceptional about the family in Strong Island. Hard work did not spare this family from the unrelenting systemic violence that has stalked black Americans since the founding of this nation.
Read More'STRONG ISLAND' SCREENING AT THE BERLINALE /
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and winning the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling Yance Ford's amazing documentary STRONG ISLAND will travel to Berlin International Film Festival, where it will screen in the Panorama Dokumente section.
Read More'STRONG ISLAND' AND 'NILE HILTON INCIDENT' BOTH WIN AT SUNDANCE /
We are immensely happy that our two co-productions who premiered at Sundance 2017 both took home awards: Strong Island, directed by Yance Ford and edited by Janus Billeskov Jansen won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling and the Nile Hilton Incident, directed by Tarik Saleh and edited by Theis Schmidt won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic.
Read More'THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT' & 'STRONG ISLAND' TO PREMIERE AT SUNDANCE 2017 /
We are happy to announce two world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival 2017 - The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh, produced by Atmo AB in Sweden and Strong Island by Yance Ford, produced by Yanceville Films & Louverture Films in the US. Both films are co-produced by Final Cut for Real and producers Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen will be present for the premieres at Sundance Film Festival.
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