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Chinonye Chukwu
Writer & Director Known for "Clemency" and "Till'; First Black Woman to Win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
Chinonye Chukwu is a Nigerian-American writer, producer, and director. In 2019, she became the first Black woman to receive the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival for her film Clemency, in which Alfre Woodard stars as a prison warden who begins to question the morality of capital punishment after witnessing back-to-back executions.
Chukwu wrote and directed the 2022 film Till, a biographical film about Mamie Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice after the 1955 lynching of her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till.
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