Nickel Boys' star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor discusses what made being directed by IndieWire Honors Auteur Award recipient RaMell Ross unique.

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.

I’ve been fortunate in the last five to seven years that these kinds of directors reached out to me…or invited me into their filmmaking worlds,” she says. “It’s been a