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Annika Pham Coming straight from Sundance with their respective buzzy docs “Power” – a Netflix Original – and “Union,” U.S. director/producer Yance Ford and his Canadian counterpart Brett Story delivered March 20 an empowering talk at Copenhagen’s “Film:makers in Dialogue” session, where they bounced ideas between each other about power structure in American society, capitalism, race and class divides from historical and contemporary perspectives. “Power,” which was competing at CPH:DOX for the Human Rights Award, is a forceful documentary essay on the origin of U.S.

Early in Yance Ford’s visual essay “Power,” he tells the audience that the film to come either requires “curiosity” or  “at least suspicion” from the viewer. It’s the type of bold claim that might pack a punch as a rhetorical hook, especially for a documentary that dives into the cultural, social, economic, and political history of policing in the United States.

In the pre-pandemic world, the leading lights of American nonfiction cinema would gather in Columbia, Missouri on the first weekend of March for the annual celebration of their craft known as True/False Film Fest. Across four glorious days, the programming would explore the innumerable definitions of this hazily defined discipline, but this year, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis forced the festival into outdoor venues elsewhere in the city for a somewhat truncated version.

The Covid-19 pandemic affected the season 2 production of Showtime’s Work In Progress, but co-creator/executive producer/writer and star Abby McEnany said the defining crisis of 2020 will also be featured on-screen.

Lindzi Scharf Risk-taking and outside-the-box thinking may be celebrated corporate cliches, but when it comes to hiring practices, businesses have been timid about embracing change.  Activist Yance Ford encourages private sector leaders to be as bold as their words and change the way they think about hiring, especially hiring people from underserved groups.“The responsibility of American businesses is to be forward-thinking,” the Academy Award-nominated documentarian says.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Award-winning filmmaker Yance Ford.Ford is best known for his Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary Strong Island. The feature premiered at Sundance in 2017 and is a Netflix Original.