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" It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief. "

Yance Ford

Grief

Strong

Family

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Yance Ford

Experience

Grief

" White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them. "

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" When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation. "

Yance Ford

Back

Family

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" My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. "

Yance Ford

Moving

Inclusive

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" Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history. "

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" Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. "