SXSW: At age 12, Martin Pistorius slipped into a waking coma. By 16, his consciousness began to return, but it would take years before others realized.

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after ...

By Jordan Mintzer Director Rodney Ascher’s obsession with horror and mysterious phenomena takes a tragic real turn in Ghost Boy, which is based on the book of the same title by South African ...

"Ghost Boy" director Rodney Ascher first learned about Martin Pistorius through the NPR podcast "Invisibilia." "I remember hearing the story and thinking, ‘This is the kind of story that I would like ...

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes was published in 2018 and is set in the USA. It tells the story of Jerome, a young, unarmed Black boy who is shot dead by a white police officer. The plot then ...

“Ghost Boy” director Rodney Ascher first learned about Martin Pistorius through the NPR podcast “Invisibilia.” “I remember hearing the story and thinking, ‘This is the kind of story ...