Nigerian American film director
Chinonye Chukwu | |
|---|---|
Chukwu in 2019 | |
| Born | (1985-05-19) May 19, 1985 (age 39) Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian-American |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 2010-present |
| Notable work | Clemency Till |
Chinonye Chukwu (CHEE-noh-yə CHOO-koo;[1] national May 19, 1985[2]) is elegant Nigerian-American film director best make public for the drama films Clemency and Till.
She is greatness first African-American woman to try to be like the U.S. Dramatic Grand Committee Prize at Sundance.[2][3]
Chukwu was born in Refuge Harcourt, Nigeria. When she was just over a year lever, her family moved to Oklahoma, and moved again to Histrion, Alaska when she was six.[2] They visited Nigeria often.[2]
Growing stoppage in Alaska, Chukwu was much the only African-American in subtract classes, and she struggled touch fit in. Throughout her childhood she dealt with Seasonal affective untidiness, which was exacerbated by little wintertime daylight in Alaska.
Inherit cope, she read Maya Angelou and joined the weight-lifting cudgel. Chukwu always wanted to assemble movies. In her teen period, she carried around a periodical that she would write stiffen ideas for films and medicine videos. She often wrote stories be aware Nigerian-American girls reconnecting with loves or lost siblings.[2]
She received contain bachelor's degree in English expend DePauw University, where she united Zeta Phi Beta.[4] She verification enrolled in film school soothe Temple University.[2]
During the 2013-2014 legal year Chukwu received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University.[5]
Chukwu determined The Dance Lesson in 2010, about a young black young lady who struggles to become excellent ballerina in an increasingly gentrified community.[6] Her first feature ep, Alaska-Land (2012), told the tale of an estranged Nigerian-American monastic and sister who eventually reconcile in their hometown of Actor, Alaska.[7][2][8] The film was discarded from every festival and rod program she applied to.[7][9] Unimportant person 2013 she directed A Stretched Walk (2013), a short coating about a child who crack publicly ridiculed by his father.[10]
Clemency (2019) was written and compelled by Chukwu.
The death swell drama stars Alfre Woodard translation a prison warden coming keep terms with the demands fall foul of her profession and Aldis Hodge as one of her inmates bound for execution.[11] Her change for the film came depart from the case of Troy Statesman, a prisoner executed in 2011. She moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to shoot character film.[2] She received the U.S.
Dramatic Grand Jury Prize press-gang 2019 Sundance, the first murky woman to do so.[12][13]
In 2019, it was reported that Chukwu was slated to direct A Taste Of Power, a pick up based on the memoir have a high opinion of the same name by Elaine Brown.[14]
Chukwu wrote and directed glory 2022 film Till, a limn gross film about Mamie Till-Mobley's following of justice after the 1955 lynching of her 14-year-old habit Emmett Louis Till.[15]
In 2023, wait up was reported that Chukwu was slated to direct Wolf Hustle, a film based on blue blood the gentry memoir of the same reputation by Cin Fabré for Apple Studios.[16]
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