Filmmaker Yance Ford takes an emotional and unflinching look at his family's devastation and lingering pain after the murder of their son and brother, William Ford. Strong Island | For Your Consideration | Netflix

ABC OSCARS COVERAGE: Yance Ford, the first transgender filmmaker to ever be nominated for an Oscar, speaks out on the red carpet: "I am proud to be black. I am proud to be trans." #Oscars http://abcn.ws/2oOAIHp | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

Yance Ford is the first transgender filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar with his documentary, Strong Island, which chronicles his own investigation into the murder of his brother, William Ford. http://abcn.ws/2HUQXLY | Good Morning America

Who’s policed, who’s protected and why? Oscar-nominated director Yance Ford returns to #HotDocs24 with a deeply researched and moving investigation into US police forces—POWER. Part essay, interview and archival collage, POWER traces the explosion of police power from the founding of the US to the present. Driven to contain perceived threats to the social order, policing in the United States has exploded in both scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described in one word: power.