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IndieWire Honors: RaMell Ross Urges Remembrance of Dozier School Boys

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Director RaMell Ross honored at IndieWire event for adapting Colson Whitehead's acclaimed 2019 novel into a critically praised film.
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  • Ross used his Auteur Award acceptance speech to urge remembrance of the boys who died at the notorious Dozier School in Florida, a real-life institution that inspired his film.
  • The Dozier School, a 'reform school' that operated for over a century, is the subject of ongoing investigations into the deaths and abuse of the children sent there.
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RaMell Ross, Colson Whitehead, Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel
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