67 BOMBS TO ENID
Documentary | Co-Director, Producer, DP, Editor | 2025 | 89min | IMDB
Co-directed with Ty McMahan and executive produced by Errol Morris, 67 Bombs to Enid follows survivors of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands who resettled in rural Oklahoma, decades after watching detonations at close range. Best Documentary, deadCenter Film Festival. International premiere at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
EVERYTHING IS STOLEN
Experimental Documentary | Producer, Director, DP, Editor | 2024 | 75min | IMDB
Poet and actor Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood) gave Ford a handful of poems, and Ford turned them into something genuinely strange and beautiful. Everything Is Stolen is part personal essay, part collage, part meditation on what it means to shed an old self and step into a new one. Best Documentary, International Avant-Garde Cinema Awards, 2024.
SR.
Documentary | Producer, DP, Editor | 2022 | 89min | NETFLIX | IMDB
A portrait of underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. in the final chapter of his life. Over three years, working alongside director Chris Smith, Ford produced, shot, and edited the film from new footage and decades of archival material. Produced with Emily Barclay Ford, Susan Downey, and Robert Downey Jr. Premiered at Telluride. Winner of Best Documentary from the National Board of Review. Streaming on Netflix.
THE PUSHBACK
Documentary | Director, Producer, DP, Editor | 2020 | 89min | TUBI | AMAZON | YOUTUBE
Produced by Richard Linklater, The Pushback looks at Texas — its land, its borders, its racial history — through the people fighting over what the state is and who it belongs to. Official selection, SXSW. Winner of three awards at the El Paso Film Festival, including Best Director.
AMERICAN CHAOS
Documentary | Co-Producer, DP, Editor | 2018 | 90min | AMAZON | IMDB
Six months before the 2016 election, director Jim Stern traveled through red-state America to understand what was drawing voters to Donald Trump. Ford shot, co-produced, and edited the film, released by Sony Pictures Classics.
DROWNED
Narrative | Writer, Director, DP, Editor | 2017 | 80min | TUBI | AMAZON | IMDB
Ellar Coltrane and Rasha Mosa spend one day together in downtown Los Angeles before his life breaks apart and reassembles somewhere else. Drowned is a love letter to a city and to that particular kind of connection you can only have when you know it’s temporary.
THE BOMB
Documentary | Co-Director, Editor | 2017 | 59min | TUBI | AMAZON | IMDB
Co-directed with Smriti Keshari and journalist Eric Schlosser, The Bomb is an immersive, largely archival film about nuclear weapons — the technology, the mythology, and the arms race that produced them. Closing night selection of Tribeca 2016 and opening night selection of Berlinale 2017. Also screened at the 2018 Nobel Peace Awards ceremony.
BY THE RIVER
Experimental Documentary | Producer, Director, DP, Editor | 2016 | 83min | TUBI | YOUTUBE
Produced by Adrien Brody. Ford sent Ellar Coltrane on a cross-country train ride with a recorder and an open itinerary — gathering sounds, recording conversations about life, creativity, and what comes next. A film about listening. Premiered at Sidewalk Film Festival, 2016, and featured at the Austin Film Society. Filmmaker Richard Linklater called By The River “a brave and sincere attempt at communication.”
STONE BARN CASTLE
Documentary | Co-Director, DP, Editor | 2015 | IMDB
In 2007, Adrien Brody bought an old stone barn in upstate New York and set out to renovate it. Ford documented the project with Brody intensely from 2008 - 2014. While an earlier version premiered at SXSW 2015 the film remained unreleased. In 2026 the pair reopened the film and began documenting further, and are now reimagining what it could be.
LEGS
Narrative | Director, Co-Producer, DP, Editor | 2012 | 83min | TUBI | IMDB
Eddie Steeples plays a cult rocker on the run. Angela Bettis is his fiercely loyal assistant. The world is after him and he doesn’t fully understand why. Part noir, part character study, with a sense of humor about its own darkness. Premiered in São Paulo Film Series, 2014.
THEORY OF BANYAN
Documentary | Director, DP, Editor | 2004 | 44min | YOUTUBE
From 1998 - 2003 Kevin Ford teamed up with Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction to capture the recording process and live shows of Stephen’s experimental music project Banyan, featuring legendary musicians Mike Watt, Nels Cline, John Frusciante, and many more.
