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Chinonye Chukwu (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ j ə ˈ tʃ uː k uː / CHEE-noh-yə CHOO-koo; born May 19, 1985) is a Nigerian-American film director best known for the drama films Clemency and Till. She is the first African-American woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Chinonye Chukwu was born on 19 May 1985 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is a director and writer, known for Till (2022), Clemency (2019) and A Long Walk (2013).
Till is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Chinonye Chukwu and written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chukwu, and produced by Beauchamp, Reilly, and Whoopi Goldberg. It is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955.
Clemency is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu. It stars Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks, Michael O'Neill, Richard Gunn, Wendell Pierce, and Aldis Hodge. The plot follows the lives of prison warden Bernadine Williams (Woodard) and death row inmate Anthony Woods (Hodge).
Oct 28, 2022 · Till: Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. With Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg. In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Jan 24, 2020 · Clemency: Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. With Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Oct 23, 2022 · He's the 14-year-old African American Chicago teen who, in 1955, was abducted and brutally murdered while visiting family in a small town in Mississippi - Money, Miss....
Oct 13, 2022 · Co-written by Chukwu, Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp, Till seeks to tell the true story behind the black-and-white photographs of Emmett Till that would become a major inflection point in the civil rights movement.
Oct 13, 2022 · Directed by Chinonye Chukwu, a follow-up to her Sundance-winning drama “Clemency,” “Till” isn’t wholly centered around Emmett. Instead, Chukwu levels her focus on Emmett’s mother Mamie (Danielle Deadwyler).
Oct 7, 2022 · For Till, writer-director Chinonye Chukwu used the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till as an entry point, choosing to tell a story of the mother who refused to let the world...
