Filmmaker drawn to the edges of documentary — where personal story meets cultural reckoning.
Kevin Ford is an award-winning filmmaker based in the United States. He produced, shot, and edited the Netflix documentary Sr., which premiered at Telluride, NYFF, and AFI, winning Best Documentary from the National Board of Review (2022) and a Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary (2023).
His most recent film, 67 Bombs to Enid, won Best Documentary at the 2025 deadCenter Film Festival and screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. In 2024, his experimental feature Everything Is Stolen, with Ellar Coltrane, was an official selection of the Santa Fe International Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the International Avant-Garde Cinema Awards.
His 2020 film The Pushback, produced by Richard Linklater, was an official SXSW selection and won three awards at El Paso Film Festival including Best Director. In 2018, Ford co-produced, shot, and edited Sony Pictures Classics documentary American Chaos. Other acclaimed projects include The Bomb, which premiered at Tribeca (2016) and Berlinale (2017) and was featured at the Nobel Peace Awards ceremony (2018).