Photos : Opening Night Premiere of NICKEL BOYS at the 62nd New York Film Festival

Cast and filmmakers of the forthcoming film NICKEL BOYS were in attendance at the film’s premiere at the 62nd New York Film Festival.

NICKEL BOYS premiere at 62nd New York Film Festival

Actors Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Daveed Diggs, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, and Jimmie Fails along with director/writer RaMell Ross, writer/producer Joslyn Barnes and cinematographer Jomo Fray were in attendance for the celebratory evening.

About the film

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.

Directed by RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys will be in theaters only on October 25.