
Yance Ford
Yance Ford was born on April 13, 1972. He is the first openly transgender director nominated for an Academy Award, and only the third openly trans nominee in any Oscar category. Ford grew up on Long Island, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1994. For ten years beginning in 2002, he worked at PBS as series producer for “POV.” Ford is a Sundance Institute Fellow, a Creative Capital Grantee, and was featured in “Filmmaker” […]
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