The African American Film Critics Association has announced its honorees for the 16th annual AAFCA Awards and the 2025 AAFCA ...

RaMell Ross' film will receive three separate awards at two different ceremonies, while "The Piano Lesson" will receive two ...

Actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson sometimes were asked to wear a camera rig while delivering their lines, to create the ...

The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross, and ...

Using exquisite first-person camera work, director RaMell Ross innovates cinematic story-telling in his book-to-screen ...

Nicole Avant, Malcolm Washington, and Nickel Boys Honored at 2025 Special Achievement Awards Luncheon and 16th AAFCA Awards ...

Earlier this week we shared part one of our conversation with Nickel Boys cinematographer, Jomo Fray. There, we talked about ...

We here at Film Independent are excited about the new film Nickel Boys, and not just because it’s one of the most buzzed ...

Nickel Boys, a stunning adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel feels like it's breaking new ground with its impressive ...

There’s really no fat in that novel, and it’s also very cause-and-effect, in a way. And so we felt, when we first read it, ...

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

When Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson got the call for “Nickel Boys,” they each sent in an audition tape and waited. Herisse’s biggest role to that date was as Yusef Salaam of the Central ...