Female Film Critics 24/375
Infuriating, fascinating, and deeply emotional, Strong Island is the story of filmmaker Yance Ford’s search for an explanation and accounting of why the man who killed his brother was never charged with the crime and walked away without any punishment. Continue reading…
Yance Ford has been an influential member of the documentary film community for some years, working as a programmer for POV and commissioning the works of others. With Strong Island, he turns his smarts and skills to making in a highly personal documentary about the murder of his brother and the impact that heinous event had on his family. He sat down with me to discuss Strong Island, rage and grief, injustice and wonderment.
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STRONG ISLAND is a documentary that seems at first to focus on a murder never prosecuted more than two decades
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