STRONG ISLAND
Directed by Yance Ford
Louverture Films is a Producer
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
The Grierson Awards 2018 - Nominee Best Single Documentary
Emmy Awards 2018 - Winner Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Academy Awards 2018 - Nominee Best Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors 2018 - Winner Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, and listed among the “Unforgettables” films of 2017
Black Critics Circle Award 2017 - Winner Best Documentary
IDA Awards 2017 - Nominated Best Documentary, recipient of Emerging Filmmaker Award (presented by Charles Burnett)
Gotham Awards 2017 - Winner Best Documentary
Critics’ Choice Awards 2017 - Nominated Best Documentary, Best First Documentary
DOCNYC 2017 - “Shortlist”
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival 2017
Locarno Film Festival 2017
Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival 2017
Frameline 41, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival 2017 - Winner Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary
AFI Docs 2017
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 - Winner Tim Hetherington Award
Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival 2017
Montclair Film Festival 2017 - Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature Competition Winner
Hot Docs | Canadian International Documentary Festival 2017
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2017 - Winner Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award and Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
CPH:DOX 2017
New Directors/New Films 2017
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2017
True/False Film Fest 2017
Berlinale - Panorama Dokumente 2017
Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Winner U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award
Feature documentary that examines the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother 25 years ago, and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free. The film calls us to bear witness to the reality rather than the abstraction of injustice. It goes beyond interviews into the homes of those left behind, into profound crises of civic faith. Strong Island interrogates murderous fear, racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake.