Interview With "Power" Director Yance Ford

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"Power" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its direction and exploration of policing in America from Yance Ford, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker of "Strong Island." Ford was kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with us about his film, his thoughts on working with Netflix, what he hopes for regarding the future of the Sundance Film Festival, and more. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in limited release in the U.S. and will be available to stream on Netflix on May 17th. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director of power, Yancey Ford.
0:06.8	Police power is immediate power.
0:10.7	It's right now.
0:12.1	Do what I told you to do.
0:13.6	Right now.
0:14.8	Or else, I decide what happens next.
0:29.6	Policing is inextricably linked to the racial history of this country.
0:34.6	Police associated with colonizers, wealth and whiteness. So police targeted people marked as non-white.
0:38.3	Slaves, indigenous, and working class people.
0:41.3	Police have been able to double down on their power time and time again.
0:46.3	There are a lot of people that feel that policing is out of control,
0:51.3	but it's also the case that there's horrific crime, and it also is out of control.
0:56.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, where I am being joined right now by the
1:01.3	director of the documentary film Power, which is premiering soon on Netflix. Yancey Ford, Academy Award
1:09.6	nominee, Ancii Ford, might I have for the record.
1:12.7	How are you today?
1:13.9	I'm doing great, Matthew.
1:14.9	How are you?
1:15.9	I'm doing really well.
1:16.5	Thank you so much for taking a moment here to talk to me about this new profound, very powerful,
1:22.1	informative piece of work.
1:24.1	Thanks.
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