Photo: Courtesy MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater
Nickel Boys with director RaMell Ross
This drop already happened.
- When
- Thu, Sep 10, 2026 · 7 PM - 8:30 PM
- Where
- MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, Denver
- Price
- Free
The director shows up, and it costs nothing. RaMell Ross adapted Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel into a film that earned Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, and he is coming to a small Highland movie house to talk about how he did it.
Denver Public Library programs this through One Book One Denver as part of its From Page to Screen series. Ross walks through the adaptation itself: the first-person camera the film is built on, translating Elwood and Turner to screen, and the real reform-school history behind the fictional Nickel Academy.
It runs 7 to 8:30 PM on Thursday September 10 at 2644 W 32nd Ave. Free with RSVP, which is exactly the kind of thing that fills up, so reserve rather than walk up. Note that MCA bills this as a conversation, not a full screening of the film.
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