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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).
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.
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 ignore...
Dec 12, 2019 · With her devastatingly powerful new film Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu is poised to transform the way we think about criminal justice.
Dec 19, 2022 · Tyler Perry and Chinonye Chukwu discuss 'Till,' 'A Jazzman's Blues' and why it's important for Black directors to tell stories from the past.
Oct 13, 2022 · With Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu was the first Black woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Three years later she returns with another story about justice, about a woman striving to understand our current systems, and about the impact that a single death can have on others.
Dec 18, 2022 · In her youth, filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu learned the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who in 1955 was kidnapped and brutally murdered during a trip to Mississippi.
