"Strong Island" is both personal memoir and factual investigation into the sketchy circumstances under which his brother was murdered, seemingly in cold blood, by a white car mechanic. In the new Netflix documentary Strong Island, William's brother, Yance, tells the story of his sibling's full, promising life and his tragic death at age 24 in Suffolk County, Long Island. The story is not as cut and dry as it seems. The film steadily undoes the faceless victim cliché, just as much as it reveals the absurdity of the ‘scary black man’ narrative.There’s a sinuous internal rhythm to Strong Island, and every stylistic feels like it has been fully considered. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. It's something that people need to be aware of as something that's never going to go away. His parents originally hailed from Charleston, South Carolina, where they left the Jim Crow South and worked their way up to the middle class suburbs of New York. In April 1992, black 24-year-old teacher William Ford Jr. was gunned down by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. When I spoke with Yance by phone, he was a mix of overwhelmed and composed. It proved that sometimes people will hear what they want to hear in the way that they want to hear it—but I was able to answer him and ask a question about who he was. Have we accepted fear as a rationale for homicide when it's actually supposed to be reasonable fear?
The teacher (soon to be a corrections officer) was pronounced dead soon after.For the past ten years, director Yance Ford has been investigating his family's story and the events that unfurled following his brother's murder.
Inspired by the photography of Yuan Yao, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim reflects on all the Asian mothers that fall outside that category—including her own.Sophia Nahli Allison's film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old whose death was a catalyst for the LA riots, but who is rarely mentioned outside of that context.VICE spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, and director Lorcan Finnegan about the film that unwittingly predicted life during COVID-19. I'm worried.But I also hope that the film reminds people that it's not just about the five years after the death of a child—it's about the 25 years after the death, the long tail. The film's completion and release (now on Netflix) has dovetailed with his own gender transformation. Ford makes the personal deeply political.Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.In his documentary Strong Island, Ford offers a remarkable, incisive examination of his own family history, harnessing a long-gestating grief and channelling it into an emotionally draining but vital piece of work.
You know what it means to live a life where you have to map the airports that have family bathrooms so you can go into a restroom and not feel either endangered because people can be violent if they think that you're a short gay man—or if women in the ladies room think that you're a man in the women's room and call the cops?
I hear a lot of talk on the net and on my Facebook feed about self-care, and I think that as a nation we need to understand that there are a lot of people in a lot of different positions in this society who need mental healthcare. '"Yance's journey (I can use it) has been a long one.
"Strong Island" is both personal memoir and factual investigation into the sketchy circumstances under which his brother was murdered, seemingly in cold blood, by a white car mechanic. In the new Netflix documentary Strong Island, William's brother, Yance, tells the story of his sibling's full, promising life and his tragic death at age 24 in Suffolk County, Long Island. The story is not as cut and dry as it seems. The film steadily undoes the faceless victim cliché, just as much as it reveals the absurdity of the ‘scary black man’ narrative.There’s a sinuous internal rhythm to Strong Island, and every stylistic feels like it has been fully considered. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. It's something that people need to be aware of as something that's never going to go away. His parents originally hailed from Charleston, South Carolina, where they left the Jim Crow South and worked their way up to the middle class suburbs of New York. In April 1992, black 24-year-old teacher William Ford Jr. was gunned down by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. When I spoke with Yance by phone, he was a mix of overwhelmed and composed. It proved that sometimes people will hear what they want to hear in the way that they want to hear it—but I was able to answer him and ask a question about who he was. Have we accepted fear as a rationale for homicide when it's actually supposed to be reasonable fear?
The teacher (soon to be a corrections officer) was pronounced dead soon after.For the past ten years, director Yance Ford has been investigating his family's story and the events that unfurled following his brother's murder.
Inspired by the photography of Yuan Yao, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim reflects on all the Asian mothers that fall outside that category—including her own.Sophia Nahli Allison's film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old whose death was a catalyst for the LA riots, but who is rarely mentioned outside of that context.VICE spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, and director Lorcan Finnegan about the film that unwittingly predicted life during COVID-19. I'm worried.But I also hope that the film reminds people that it's not just about the five years after the death of a child—it's about the 25 years after the death, the long tail. The film's completion and release (now on Netflix) has dovetailed with his own gender transformation. Ford makes the personal deeply political.Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.In his documentary Strong Island, Ford offers a remarkable, incisive examination of his own family history, harnessing a long-gestating grief and channelling it into an emotionally draining but vital piece of work.
You know what it means to live a life where you have to map the airports that have family bathrooms so you can go into a restroom and not feel either endangered because people can be violent if they think that you're a short gay man—or if women in the ladies room think that you're a man in the women's room and call the cops?
I hear a lot of talk on the net and on my Facebook feed about self-care, and I think that as a nation we need to understand that there are a lot of people in a lot of different positions in this society who need mental healthcare. '"Yance's journey (I can use it) has been a long one.
"Strong Island" is both personal memoir and factual investigation into the sketchy circumstances under which his brother was murdered, seemingly in cold blood, by a white car mechanic. In the new Netflix documentary Strong Island, William's brother, Yance, tells the story of his sibling's full, promising life and his tragic death at age 24 in Suffolk County, Long Island. The story is not as cut and dry as it seems. The film steadily undoes the faceless victim cliché, just as much as it reveals the absurdity of the ‘scary black man’ narrative.There’s a sinuous internal rhythm to Strong Island, and every stylistic feels like it has been fully considered. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. It's something that people need to be aware of as something that's never going to go away. His parents originally hailed from Charleston, South Carolina, where they left the Jim Crow South and worked their way up to the middle class suburbs of New York. In April 1992, black 24-year-old teacher William Ford Jr. was gunned down by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. When I spoke with Yance by phone, he was a mix of overwhelmed and composed. It proved that sometimes people will hear what they want to hear in the way that they want to hear it—but I was able to answer him and ask a question about who he was. Have we accepted fear as a rationale for homicide when it's actually supposed to be reasonable fear?
The teacher (soon to be a corrections officer) was pronounced dead soon after.For the past ten years, director Yance Ford has been investigating his family's story and the events that unfurled following his brother's murder.
Inspired by the photography of Yuan Yao, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim reflects on all the Asian mothers that fall outside that category—including her own.Sophia Nahli Allison's film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old whose death was a catalyst for the LA riots, but who is rarely mentioned outside of that context.VICE spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, and director Lorcan Finnegan about the film that unwittingly predicted life during COVID-19. I'm worried.But I also hope that the film reminds people that it's not just about the five years after the death of a child—it's about the 25 years after the death, the long tail. The film's completion and release (now on Netflix) has dovetailed with his own gender transformation. Ford makes the personal deeply political.Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.In his documentary Strong Island, Ford offers a remarkable, incisive examination of his own family history, harnessing a long-gestating grief and channelling it into an emotionally draining but vital piece of work.
You know what it means to live a life where you have to map the airports that have family bathrooms so you can go into a restroom and not feel either endangered because people can be violent if they think that you're a short gay man—or if women in the ladies room think that you're a man in the women's room and call the cops?
I hear a lot of talk on the net and on my Facebook feed about self-care, and I think that as a nation we need to understand that there are a lot of people in a lot of different positions in this society who need mental healthcare. '"Yance's journey (I can use it) has been a long one.
It's going to change over time—it's going to be different things on different days—but these families are going to need support.
The Ford family were determined to raise their children in an environment where – in Mrs Ford’s words – “character, not colour” mattered most. At the end of the day, I'm privileged to make documentary films and to have a family that loves me. I don't want to say that I'm not optimistic, but I don't think that optimism is in my toolbox of feelings, honestly.
How heartbreaking that her philosophy could ever be perceived as unwise.Prescient documentary filmmaking from a family-oriented perspective.A harrowing, raw experience with a deeply intelligent internal rhythm.Essential, devastating viewing. Ford was unarmed, Reilly brandished a rifle, and the teenager—who had an extensive criminal record—took one shot at Ford, piercing him in the heart. We believe in Truth & Movies. If If people are curious about transgender identity, I'm going to pivot that conversation to an important place, which is how trans people of color aren't actually safe on in our country, and how I have to negotiate that in my travel to and from press and festivals. In April 1992, black 24-year-old teacher William Ford Jr. was gunned down by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. There's not a rhetorical question in the film. '"Nearly every Asian mother character in American movies is a cruel, ambitious 'tiger mom.' It avoids showering too many facts on the audience all at once, carefully withholding pivotal pieces of information as a way to develop the drama.
"Strong Island" is both personal memoir and factual investigation into the sketchy circumstances under which his brother was murdered, seemingly in cold blood, by a white car mechanic. In the new Netflix documentary Strong Island, William's brother, Yance, tells the story of his sibling's full, promising life and his tragic death at age 24 in Suffolk County, Long Island. The story is not as cut and dry as it seems. The film steadily undoes the faceless victim cliché, just as much as it reveals the absurdity of the ‘scary black man’ narrative.There’s a sinuous internal rhythm to Strong Island, and every stylistic feels like it has been fully considered. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. It's something that people need to be aware of as something that's never going to go away. His parents originally hailed from Charleston, South Carolina, where they left the Jim Crow South and worked their way up to the middle class suburbs of New York. In April 1992, black 24-year-old teacher William Ford Jr. was gunned down by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. When I spoke with Yance by phone, he was a mix of overwhelmed and composed. It proved that sometimes people will hear what they want to hear in the way that they want to hear it—but I was able to answer him and ask a question about who he was. Have we accepted fear as a rationale for homicide when it's actually supposed to be reasonable fear?
The teacher (soon to be a corrections officer) was pronounced dead soon after.For the past ten years, director Yance Ford has been investigating his family's story and the events that unfurled following his brother's murder.
Inspired by the photography of Yuan Yao, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim reflects on all the Asian mothers that fall outside that category—including her own.Sophia Nahli Allison's film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old whose death was a catalyst for the LA riots, but who is rarely mentioned outside of that context.VICE spoke to Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, and director Lorcan Finnegan about the film that unwittingly predicted life during COVID-19. I'm worried.But I also hope that the film reminds people that it's not just about the five years after the death of a child—it's about the 25 years after the death, the long tail. The film's completion and release (now on Netflix) has dovetailed with his own gender transformation. Ford makes the personal deeply political.Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.In his documentary Strong Island, Ford offers a remarkable, incisive examination of his own family history, harnessing a long-gestating grief and channelling it into an emotionally draining but vital piece of work.
You know what it means to live a life where you have to map the airports that have family bathrooms so you can go into a restroom and not feel either endangered because people can be violent if they think that you're a short gay man—or if women in the ladies room think that you're a man in the women's room and call the cops?
I hear a lot of talk on the net and on my Facebook feed about self-care, and I think that as a nation we need to understand that there are a lot of people in a lot of different positions in this society who need mental healthcare. '"Yance's journey (I can use it) has been a long one.
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