"The film that I made previously, called Hale County This Morning, This Evening, was essentially from a first person perspective... I used, I think, three or four shots from that film as a proof of concept when trying to show people how images look and how the camera would be moving..."

Filmmaker RaMell Ross sat down in TIFF's Studio 9 to discuss the challenges and technical details of his immersive storytelling vision for Nickel Boys, his adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.

Nickel Boys is now playing at TIFF Lightbox, with select screenings presented in 35mm. Find showtimes and buy tickets at tiff.net/calendar.