Shooting an Entire Film in First Person POV | Nickel Boys Q&A w RaMell Ross

Vanity Fair’s David Canfield speaks with writer/director RaMell Ross and actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson about adapting the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. They talk about director Ramell Ross’s transition from documentary to narrative, the unique challenges of shooting and acting in a film that’s almost entirely shot in first-person POV, and about how to represent the horrors at the reform schools that Nickel Boys is based on. Film Independent Presents are screenings where some of the most exciting new films before they hit theaters and talk with the people who made them, and they’re completely free for Film Independent members. Become a member today at filmindependent.org.