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Clemency o Winner of Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize 2019 INTERVIEW WITH
Writer and Director Chinonye Chukwu Where did the idea for Clemency come from? In September 2011, a Black man named Troy Davis was executed in a Georgia State Prison. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, including
several retired wardens and Directors of Correction, protested his execution: they banded together and wrote a letter to the Governor urging clemency for Troy. We were all frustrated and angry and sad when he was executed, but that got my thinking: if we’re all feeling this way, what must it be like for the people who had to kill him? What does it mean for your livelihood to be tied to the taking of   >>
Chinonye Chukwu on set
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