Panavision | Nickel Boys DP Jomo Fray on lenses and camera movement

Panavision | Nickel Boys DP Jomo Fray on lenses and camera movement

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Director RaMell Ross’ feature film Nickel Boys continues to earn accolades, including a Spotlight Award from the American Society of Cinematographers for director of photography Jomo Fray. With the movie, Fray explains, he and Ross “wanted to invite the audience into the body and the eyes of a Black boy during the Jim Crow South….

How the creators of Nickel Boys brought a fresh approach to their storytelling

How the creators of Nickel Boys brought a fresh approach to their storytelling

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Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Elwood Curtis is on the cusp of adulthood, mere days away from attending his first college classes, when an innocent wrong -place/wrong-time misstep reroutes…