It's not the graphic horrors of the Nickel Academy, based on the notorious Dozier School for Boys (which closed in 2011), that concerned Ross, since he often shows them by indirection through the ...

On Mar. 6, Screen/Society showed the acclaimed film “Nickel Boys” (2024) in the Ruby’s Film Theater. Directed by RaMell Ross and based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of ...

The film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, which was shut down in 2011.