Chinonye Chukwu
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Please see article about Sundance biggest winner https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/sundance-chinonye-chukwu-first-black-woman-grand-jury-prize-1202040823/#! and interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h5qcpAcmqY
It was a banner year for female filmmakers at this year’s Sundance
Film Festival, as each of the four Grand Jury Prizes given to
competition films — the festival’s highest honors, as voted on by
individual juries — was directed or co-directed by a female filmmaker.
But “Clemency”
filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu broke down a new barrier: she’s the first
black woman to win the the festival’s biggest prize, the Grand Jury
Prize for her U.S. Dramatic entry. Chukwu both wrote and directed the
death row drama, which stars Alfre Woodard as a prison warden struggling
with the emotional demands of her job.
In IndieWire’s review, Eric Kohn wrote of the film, “Alfre
Woodard embodies the extraordinary challenges of a woman tasked with
sending men to their death, while bottling up her emotions so tight she
looks as if she might blow. Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s second
feature maintains the quiet, steady rhythms of a woman so consumed by
her routine that by the end of the opening credits, it appears to have
consumed her humanity as well.”
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