Power (2024)
Directed by Yance Ford

Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
A Netflix Documentary. A Multitude Films Production. In association with Corvidae Media and Story Syndicate.

YANCE FORD (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER) is an Oscar-nominated director and producer based in New York City. His feature documentary film STRONG ISLAND premiered at Sundance in 2017 to critical acclaim winning a Special Jury Award for storytelling. The film went on to win the Gotham Award for Best Documentary and the Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best Doc. STRONG ISLAND was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards, where Ford made history as the first openly transgender director nominated for an Oscar. STRONG ISLAND went on to win the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Film and was nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award. At the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors, Ford became the first nominee ever to win for Best Direction, Best Debut and Best Feature. His work can be seen in the FX series PRIDE, the Netflix series TRIAL BY MEDIA, the Apple+ series THE ME YOU CAN’T SEE, the Showtime comedy WORK IN PROGRESS and the documentary THE COLOR OF CARE on The Smithsonian Channel. Ford was a staff writer in the HBO mini-room for the adaptation of the bestselling novel The Vanishing Half.

Yance is a former Series Producer at the PBS documentary anthology series POV where, during his tenure with the series, his curatorial work at POV garnered 5 Emmy Awards and 16 Emmy nominations. Ford is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and Sundance Institute Fellow and was named to Variety’s 10 Documakers to Watch and The Root 100. Ford was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. His work has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, Cinereach, The Ford Foundation and others. Ford is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America and the Guild of Future Architects.

IAN OLDS (EDITOR, WRITER) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work as a director and editor of both narrative and documentary films. Films he is credited as both director and editor include the Iraq doc OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND (short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award), FIXER: THE TAKING OF AJMAL NAQSHBANDI (winner of top jury prizes at Tribeca and Madrid, acquired by HBO Documentary Films and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism), and BURN COUNTRY (Winner Best Actor Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and released by Samuel Goldwyn Films). Other editing credits include SLOW MACHINE, directed by Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo (New York Film Festival); AS I LAY DYING, directed by James Franco (Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard); Hulu’s doc series CAPTIVE AUDIENCE; and CUL DE SAC, a suburban war story directed by Garrett Scott (Toronto International Film Festival, Arte-France).

ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE (COMPOSER) is an artist, curator and composer who works primarily with, but not limited to voice and modular synthesizers for sound works in the realm of spontaneous music. Along with analog video synthesis works, he has produced an A/V proposal that has been a focus of live performance and installation/exhibition. The marriage of synthesis and the voice has allowed for a heightened physicality in the way of ecstatic music, both in performance and recorded. The sensitivity of analogue modular synthesis echoes the organic nature of vocal expression, which lends itself to Lowe’s aleatoric process. Lowe’s works on paper tend towards human relations to the natural/magical world and the repetition of motifs.

Robert has also focused on composition for film and television, both in solo scoring and collaboration. Over the last several years, Robert has collaborated on projects or provided sound in a featured artist capacity for such films as END OF SUMMER, SICARIO, ARRIVAL, LAST AND FIRST MEN with Johann Johannsson, and IT COMES AT NIGHT with Brian Mcomber. Recently, Robert has scored CANDYMAN (MGM/Universal) for Nia DaCosta, THE COLOR OF CARE and POWER(Netflix) for Yance Ford, MASTER (Amazon) for Mariama Diallo, GRASSHOPPER REPUBLIC for Daniel McCabe and docuseries TELEMARKETERS (HBO). Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

JULIA C LIU (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY) is a Providence based artist, director and Emmy nominated cinematographer seeking to promote diversity in front of and behind the lens. Her passion for visual storytelling started through her comics, evolving to filmmaking as a way to bring her illustrations to life. She strives for meaningful collaborations, opportunities for creativity and healthy work environments on all her projects. Her narrative directorial debut DRIVING WHILE BLACK MAGIC screened at Urbanworld, Martha’s Vineyard African A778úmerican Film Festival, and the Montreal International Black Film Festival. Liu is the Director of Photography for POWER directed by Yance Ford, the cinematographer for the Emmy award winning documentary STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE, and the Director of Photography and Executive Producer of the Netflix original WHITE HOT: THE RISE & FALL OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH. Liu is a camera operator in the International Cinematographers Guild and a graduate of Brown University.