Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross on his revolutionary filmmaking choice: ‘I don’t know if I could have told the story any other way.’ He chose to shoot the project in first-person perspective, meaning actors speak to the camera and interact directly with the audience.

The Oscar-nominated actress tells IndieWire what made being directed by Auteur Award recipient RaMell Ross different, even beyond his innovative camera work on "Nickel Boys."

RaMell Ross's feature directorial debut "Nickel Boys" is unlike any mainstream release in recent memory. Rather than adapt the Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Nickel Boys" with a traditional approach,

RaMell Ross' first film, the Oscar-nominated "Hale County This Morning, This Evening," was an unusual project for a director whose day job was as an artist and a teacher at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross talks to IndieWire about his bold choice to use first-person POV cinematography, and the response it's elicited.