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‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross On His “Overly Verbose” Thank You Email To Colson Whitehead And The Response – New York Film Festival
RaMell Ross, who directed 'Nickel Boys' based on the Colson Whitehead novel, believes the prolific writer gave his blessing to the adaptation which will open the New York Film Festival Tonight
Nickel Boys, which world premiered at Telluride last month, is Ross’ first narrative feature and follows his acclaimed Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening. Whitehead’s book is inspired by the Dozier School, a Florida reformatory in business for over a century with a brutal history in the Jim Crow south. After it closed, authorities discovered 100 unmarked graves of boys, mostly Black youths, subject to horrific treatment.
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