Kevin Ford

Kevin Ford is an award-winning filmmaker who produced, shot, and edited the Netflix feature documentary "Sr." about the life and works of filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. which premiered at Telluride 2022 and also won the Best Documentary from the National Board of Review. Some other notable works by Ford include The Pathway, a doc series about NBA basketball prospects for TNT, which he shot and directed with James D. Stern. In 2021 Kevin directed Face The River, a documentary for RCA featuring musician Gavin DeGraw. In 2020 Kevin directed, shot, and edited a documentary, The Pushback, 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 produced, shot, and edited the Sony Pictures Classics documentary American Chaos. Other acclaimed projects include The Bomb (director, editor) which was the closing night film of Tribeca 2016 and was also featured at the 2017 Nobel Peace Awards Ceremony. Ford was a director of Stone Barn Castle, a soul-searching 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. Narrative features Ford has directed include the drama Legs, starring Eddie Steeples which premiered at the 2014 Cinesander Film Series, as well as two indie features featuring Ellar Coltrane, an indie-romance, Drowned, and a road film, By The River, which was produced by Adrien Brody and premiered at 2016 Sidewalk Film Festival. As cinematographer, Ford worked on a documentary series for A24 and HBO, and previously he shot the feature film Roman produced by Lucky McKee, as well as the 2003 political documentary The Party's Over starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2023 Kevin directed a new feature film, Everything Is Stolen, featuring Ellar Coltrane.