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How ‘Clemency’ Filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu Turned Her Pain Into the Year’s Most Empathetic Film The 2011 execution of Troy Davis sparked emotions in the filmmaker that needed an outlet.

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.

Till co-writer/director Chinonye Chukwu joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: LA3C awards-season event to talk about the importance of making the film, creating a safe space on set, and casting ...

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 what white ...

Chinonye Chukwu: The past is very much intertwined with the present. And we are in a time where this history is actively being erased in schools, in our own lives, from screens.

It's the same thing when you know all of someone. THOMPSON: I spoke with Chinonye Chukwu about the film, and she began by telling me how she landed on that approach to tell this story.

Director Chinonye Chukwu claimed that Hollywood has a history of “unabashed misogyny towards black women” after “Till” was overlooked for an Oscar nomination. Getty Images ...

CHINONYE CHUKWU: So, I just—one of the most impactful things to my filmmaking career was when I was awarded a Princess Grace Foundation grant in grad school, which was a $25,000 scholarship.

Chinonye Chukwu’s Orion feature film Till has set Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg as Emmett’s grandmother Alma Carthan.