Power

Movie Summary: Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.

Queer Film LA Says: American Cinematheque's "This is Not a Fiction" documentary festival screens "Power," a history of American policing from trans director Yance Ford. Double feature with Ford's Oscar-nominated autobiographical true crime doc Strong Island.

Movie Summary: Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.