An archival photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck standing against a plastered wall.
Strong Island
Still from Strong Island
Film Complete

Directed by

Yance Ford

Produced by

Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joslyn Barnes, Esther Robinson, and Yance Ford

Strong Island was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award® in Best Documentary Feature, and was awarded Best Documentary by the Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) in 2017. The film won the Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2017 Montclair Film Festival and was included in DOC NYC’s 2017 Short List program which features 15 of the year’s best documentaries. It was also honored by the International Documentary Association (IDA) and nominated for its 2017 Best Feature award. Strong Island premiered at Sundance, and you can stream it now on Netflix.

Best Documentary

Black Film Critics Circle

Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature

Montclair Film Festival

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