NICKEL BOYS 🪙🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏾 Preview Screening + Director Q&A  On THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER, 8.30pm!  We’re truly honoured to welcome director and co-writer Ramell Ross to the Rio Cinema, for what will be a wonderful Q&A preview screening of his stunning masterpiece, NICKEL BOYS, hosted by journalist Zac Ntim.  “There are few American films that come close to what it accomplishes... a miracle, with the makings of a classic”. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, NICKEL BOYS is a dazzling achievement – a bold and beguiling exploration of buried American history brought vividly to life via an ingenious visual approach. 1960s Florida: Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy, a barbaric juvenile reformatory, for a crime he did not commit. There he meets the worldly-wise Jack Turner and life-changing friendship is formed. Present day New York: the cruel realities of racism are recalled alongside the beauty of the natural world and an unbreakable bond of hope between two black teenagers. With phenomenal cutting-edge performances from Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as Elwood and Turner, alongside the incomparable Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, the groundbreaking NICKEL BOYS is a never less than utterly remarkable. VISIT THE RIO WEBSITE FOR TICKETS! 🎟️