“Is your America and my America the same place? Has it ever been?” Netflix has revealed an official trailer for the documentary film titled Power, the latest from acclaimed doc filmmaker Yance Ford – who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2018. This premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it also played at the CPH:DOX, Full Frame, and Hot Docs Film Festivals after the premiere. 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. The film offers a visceral, immersive journey to demonstrate how we’ve arrived at this moment in history, from the slave patrols of the 1700s and first publicly funded police departments of the 1800s to the uprisings of the 1960s & 2020s. Part essay, part interview, and part archival collage, Power uses historical materials to illustrate our contemporary realities, examining urgent questions about a growing and largely unchecked authority — who is policed, who is protected, who gets to decide, and why. A very intense and unsettling film – you’ll never be able to forget this one after watching it. // Continue Reading ›
Yance Ford’s Documentary ‘Power’ Trailer – About Policing in America
