Nickel Boys' star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor discusses what made being directed by IndieWire Honors Auteur Award recipient RaMell Ross unique.

The Auteur Award recipient warns audiences "to not look too hard" when viewing his Colson Whitehead adaptation.

RaMell Ross's feature directorial debut "Nickel Boys" is unlike any mainstream release in recent memory. Rather than adapt the Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Nickel Boys" with a traditional approach,

Nickel Boys' actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor shares her ancestral pain in RaMell Ross' exploration of a dark chapter in Florida's history.

Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross on his revolutionary filmmaking choice: ‘I don’t know if I could have told the story any other way.’ He chose to shoot the project in first-person perspective, meaning actors speak to the camera and interact directly with the audience.

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys is an incredible film adapted from the novel by Colson Whitehead. The film follows two teenagers at a reform school in north