Directing
Kevin Ford
Directing
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.
Feature Films (6)
Zel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts (including a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up vaudevillians and a noisy, sight-impaired group of musicians among others) that have been there for as long as she can remember. When a mysterious light appears in the woods the ghosts realize that they are trapped and begin to rebel. Zel is forced to come to terms with the origins of these spirits and letting go of the only family she has ever known.
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.
"Sr."
Filmmaker Skip Lotem stalks Carrie (2002) star Angela Bettis on the set of the film.
Skip Lotem Loves Carrie
Ron, a successful poet from New York who has not seen his old friend Jake in five years. On the eve of Jake's wedding Ron shows up to be his best man and celebrate but Jake has other things on his mind like settling old scores and getting wasted.
When Is Tomorrow
A group of disconnected people are brought together by a string of awkward events in post-9/11 Manhattan. A body-snatcher (Mia Tyler) is gathering dead bodies off the streets and no one seems to know why, especially the two detectives (Eddie Steeples, Peter McNolte) who are assigned to find her.
People Are Dead
Three Days is a feature film exploring the on-and-off-tour lives of Jane's Addiction. Set predominately on their 1997 'Relapse Tour', this docu-drama weaves audiences throughout the band's legacy in a colorful, fast-paced orgy of gritty backstage drama and rare musical performances