Oscar nominee Yance Ford

Name: Oscar nominee Yance Ford
Uploaded: 2018-02-23T22:29:00+00:00
Duration: 4 min 12 s
Description: Yance Ford is the first transgender man nominated for an Academy Award. His documentary is called Strong Island, an up-close and powerful portrait of his family's struggle after his brother, William, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by a white teenager in Central Islip, a town on Long Island.

Yance Ford is the first transgender man nominated for an Academy Award. His documentary is called Strong Island, an up-close and powerful portrait of his family's struggle after his brother, William, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by a white teenager in Central Islip, a town on Long Island.

Posted February 23, 2018 7:27pm EST