Directing

Kevin Ford

Biography

Kevin Ford is an award-winning filmmaker who produced, shot, and edited the Netflix feature documentary "Sr." which premiered at Telluride, NYFF, AFI, and also won Best Documentary from the National Board of Review in 2022 and a Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary in 2023. His most recent film 67 Bombs to Enid won Best Documentary at the 2025 deadCenter Film Festival. In 2024, Ford completed an experimental feature, Everything Is Stolen, with Ellar Coltrane, which was an official selection of Santa Fe International Film Festival and also won Best Documentary from the 2024 International Avant-Garde Cinema Awards. In 2020 Kevin directed, shot, and edited The Pushback, a feature documentary produced by Richard Linklater, which was an official selection of SXSW 2020 and also won 3 awards at El Paso Film Festival, including Best Director. In 2018, Ford co-produced, shot, and edited the Sony Pictures Classics documentary American Chaos. Other acclaimed projects include The Bomb (director, editor) a chilling experimental film about nuclear weapons which premiered at Tribeca 2016 and Berlinale 2017, and was also featured at the Nobel Peace Awards ceremony. Ford was a director of Stone Barn Castle, a soul-searching feature documentary with Adrien Brody which premiered at SXSW 2015, as well as the Rock n' Roll feature Three Days starring Jane's Addiction which premiered at Slamdance 1999. Previously Kevin directed several other feature films including the drama Legs starring Eddie Steeples which premiered at the 2014 Cinesander Film Series, and two other features starring Ellar Coltrane — an indie-romance, Drowned, and a road film, By The River, which premiered at 2016 Sidewalk Film Festival.