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American artist and filmmaker (born 1982) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker, photographer, academic, and writer best known for his 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening.[1]
RaMell Ross | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42) |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Film director, photographer, professor |
Ross was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended Lake Braddock Secondary School.[2][3]
In 2005, Ross graduated from Georgetown University, where he majored in English and sociology and played on the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team.[1][3] He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.[3]
In 2009, Ross moved to Greensboro, Alabama for a position as a basketball coach and photography teacher.[4] These experiences inspired multiple collections of photographs and art installments inspired by Black life in the American South.[5]
Filmmaker Magazine named Ross among "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2015. That year, he was a Sundance Institute New Frontier Artist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab.[6] He joined faculty of the Brown Arts Initiative at Brown University in 2016, where he currently serves as an assistant professor of visual art.[7] Soon after, he was awarded a two-year Mellon Gateway Fellowship.[8]
Ross' directorial debut, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, an experimental documentary about Black life in Hale County, Alabama, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.[9] He was awarded the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the festival. The film went on to win a Peabody Award and in 2019 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.[10]
Easter Snap, Ross' documentary short depicting five men preparing a hog to be butchered in a ritualistic fashion, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.[11][1]
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presented a retrospective of Ross' artwork, titled Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross from October 2021 to March 2022. A book of Ross' work titled Spell Time, Practice, American, Body was released in 2023.[5]
Nickel Boys, Ross' film adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel The Nickel Boys, debuted at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2024.[12] The film is scheduled to open the 2024 New York Film Festival.[13]
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2018 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | — | [1] |
2019 | Easter Snap | Documentary short | [11] |
2024 | Nickel Boys | — | [13] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2018 | Sundance Film Festival | Special Jury Award for Creative Vision | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Won | [1] |
Gotham Awards | Best Documentary | Won[lower-alpha 1] | [9] | ||
2019 | Academy Awards | Best Documentary Feature Film | Nominated[lower-alpha 1] | [1] | |
Primetime Emmy Awards | Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking | Nominated[lower-alpha 2] | [1] | ||
Peabody Awards | Documentary Category | Won[lower-alpha 3] | [10] | ||
Chicago International Film Festival | Best Documentary Short | Easter Snap | Won | [1] |
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