
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.
Known For

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."

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.
Last Party 2000
This documentary by Kevin Ford explores the creation of Tobe Hooper's movie Mortuary (2005), following Hooper closely through every step of the production from start to finish.
Inside the Graveyard

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

A Rock Star is in peril in the Hollywood Hills... 'Legs' Johnson needs to disappear, but a love from his past makes it difficult to move on
Legs

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
Three Days

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 struggling playwright meets an aspiring fashion student the day before he leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New York. The two form an immediate connection and spend the day exploring downtown Los Angeles together, while wrestling with many of their deepest issues about trust, intimacy, and their place in the world.
Drowned

The first of two Latinas to represent Texas in Congress, Veronica Escobar, and the only African-American woman to run for city council in Austin in 2018, Natasha Harper-Madison, lead a diverse group of progressive voices across Texas as they fight decades of institutional racism and policies of discrimination along the border. The battle over immigrant rights, land seizures to build the border wall, and the troubled racial history of the state form the backdrop to a film that explores how a place once known for its reactionary politics is becoming more liberal, more diverse—and more at risk for violent conflict.
The Pushback
In 2007, Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody fell in love with a partially burned stone barn, reminiscent of an old European castle, hidden in the woods of upstate New York. Looking to fulfill a life-long dream of having a place in the country, he went out on a limb and purchased the enchanting but dilapidated structure. Adrien took charge of an elaborate restoration of the property spanning seven years, transforming it into a magical place to share with family and friends. Teaming up with filmmaker Kevin Ford, Adrien created a personal cinematic record of the journey. Stone Barn Castle is a portrayal of the pursuit of dreams and the distance one must travel to achieve them.
Stone Barn Castle

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.
The Bomb

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

Filmmaker Skip Lotem stalks Carrie (2002) star Angela Bettis on the set of the film.
Skip Lotem Loves Carrie

From Executive Producer Errol Morris, 67 BOMBS TO ENID is an intimate, character-driven documentary about survivors of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands who relocated to rural America. The film presents intimate access to characters with first-hand accounts of bomb blasts and their descendants who speak to the generational impact these perverse weapons of war have had on humans.
67 Bombs to Enid

A young man travels cross country by train, gathering sounds, and recording conversations about life, creativity, and personal growth with people he meets along the way.