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Chinonye Chukwu ( / ˈtʃiːnoʊjəˈtʃuːkuː / CHEE-noh-yə CHOO-koo; [1] born May 19, 1985 [2]) 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.
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.
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).
12 Dis 2019 · With her devastatingly powerful new film Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu is poised to transform the way we think about criminal justice.
28 Okt 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.
13 Okt 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).
7 Okt 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...
