1. Chinonye Chukwu is a Nigerian-American film director best known for the drama films Clemency and Till.
11 Facts About Chinonye Chukwu
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Chinonye Chukwu is the first African-American woman to win the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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Chinonye Chukwu received her bachelor's degree in English from DePauw University, where she joined Zeta Phi Beta.
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Chinonye Chukwu then enrolled in film school at Temple University.
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Chinonye Chukwu directed The Dance Lesson in 2010, about a young black girl who struggles to become a ballerina in an increasingly gentrified community.
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Chinonye Chukwu's inspiration for the film came from the case of Troy Davis, a prisoner executed in 2011.
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Chinonye Chukwu moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to shoot the film.
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Chinonye Chukwu received the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at 2019 Sundance, the first black woman to do so.
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In 2019, it was reported that Chinonye Chukwu was slated to direct A Taste Of Power, a film based on the memoir of the same name by Elaine Brown.
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Chinonye 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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In 2023, it was reported that Chinonye Chukwu was slated to direct Wolf Hustle, a film based on the memoir of the same name by Cin Fabre for Apple Studios.