Kevin Ford grew up in a small town in Northern California and moved to New York in the mid-1990s. He spent time around Anthology Film Archives, watching experimental film get made and shown with almost no money and no gatekeeping — a template he's used ever since for his own self-financed work, alongside the assignment and commercial jobs that pay for it.

He doesn't stick to one format. Documentary, narrative, experimental, short, music video — whatever the story needs.

Some of his longest working relationships:

Richard Linklater produced The Pushback. Adrien Brody produced By the River and later directed a short with Ford producing and shooting; the two also co-directed Stone Barn Castle, about Brody's decade-long restoration of a stone barn. Robert Downey Jr. asked Ford to document his father's final years for Sr., and later to direct a short documentary tied to his Lincoln Center Theater run in McNeal.