‘Nickel Boys’ Star & Creatives On How Shooting Pov Meant “Unlearning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cinema” – Contenders Los Angeles
Shooting Nickel Boys entirely from the characters’ first-person point of view — literally through their eyes — was a novel way to “center the experience” of the film’s subjects, writer-director RaMell Ross said at Saturday’s Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. It was also a daunting technical and conceptual challenge.
“It was all about unlearning everything that we thought we knew about traditional cinema and trying to reach for the oddest tools, to try to get something that felt really organic and inside the body,” director of photography Jomo Fray said in a panel discussion with Ross, co-star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and producer Jeremy Kleiner.
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Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, Nickel Boys, the Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios film follows two Black teen-aged boys imprisoned in a harsh, Jim Crow-era Florida reform school, The Nickel Academy.
“It was all about unlearning everything that we thought we knew about traditional cinema and trying to reach for the oddest tools, to try to get something that felt really organic and inside the body,” director of photography Jomo Fray said in a panel discussion with Ross, co-star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and producer Jeremy Kleiner.
Related: 2024-25 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More
Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, Nickel Boys, the Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios film follows two Black teen-aged boys imprisoned in a harsh, Jim Crow-era Florida reform school, The Nickel Academy.
- 11/16/2024
- by Sean Piccoli
- Deadline Film + TV
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