Preview: Nickel Boys + Filmmaker Q&A

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, NICKEL BOYS is a dazzling achievement – a bold and beguiling exploration of buried American history brought vividly to life via an ingenious visual approach. 1960s Florida: Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy, a barbaric juvenile reformatory, for a crime he did not commit. There he meets the worldly-wise Jack Turner and life-changing friendship is formed. Present day New York: the cruel realities of racism are recalled alongside the beauty of the natural world and an unbreakable bond of hope between two black teenagers. With its cutting-edge performances from Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as Elwood and Turner, the groundbreaking NICKEL BOYS is never less than remarkable’ . Followed by an in person Q&A with director/co-writer Ramell RossPreview: Nickel Boys + Filmmaker Q&A showing at: December 19, 8:30 pm

Location: Rio Cinema107 Kingsland High Street, London, E8 2PB3

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Ethan Herisse

Brandon Wilson

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Fred Hechinger

Daveed Diggs

Luke Tennie

RaMell Ross

Dede Gardner

Jeremy Kleiner

Joslyn Barnes

David Levine

Preview: Nickel Boys + Filmmaker Q&A"