‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross Signs With WME And Ithaka Media

EXCLUSIVE: After his narrative directing debut, Nickel Boys‘ earned rave reviews following its premiere at this years Telluride Film Festival, Oscar-nominated writer-director and acclaimed visual artist RaMell Ross has signed with WME and Jerome Duboz of Ithaka Media for representation. The film is also set to open the New York Film Festival and in October, it will also be shown at the London Film Festival.

The film, which he wrote with Joslyn Barnes, was adapted from the 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead. It is produced by Plan B and Anonymous Content, and stars Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis, Ethan Herisse, Fred Hechinger and Hamish Linklater. The film will release theatrically on October 25th for MGM-Orion.

Ross is best known for his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2019. 

In addition to his filmmaking, Ross is an accomplished artist and photographer who teaches visual art at Brown University and whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.