Tag: CHINONYE CHUKWU
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Chinonye Chukwu emerges as first black woman to win top prize at Sundance film festival
Nigerian American filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu, clinched the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance film festival; the first black woman to do so Her movie, ‘Clemency’, which she wrote and directed, depicted the story of a warden at a maximum security prison struggling with the emotional demands of her job. Chukwu joins other notable filmmakers…