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This edition: Chinonye Chukwu on 'Clemency' | NDNF19

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Original tape date: March 29, 2019. First aired: August 11, 2023.

Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu discusses Clemency, her extensive research process, casting Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge, and more at the 48th edition of New Directors/New Films.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Chinonye Chukwu’s sophomore feature is an enthralling drama anchored by a powerhouse performance from the great Alfre Woodard. Bernadine (Woodard) is a prison warden whose psychic toll has been wrought by years working on death row, and which has caused tensions with her husband Jonathan (Wendell Pierce). After a harrowing botched procedure, her growing investment in the inmate who is next to be executed, Anthony (a mesmerizing Aldis Hodge), encourages her to take a long overdue look in the mirror… Clemency is an immersive, atmospheric film as well as a haunting, tough-minded inquiry into the dignity of work and the morality of capital punishment.

Guest List

Chinonye Chukwu Director, Clemency

Dennis Lim Writer, Film Curator, Director of Programming, The Film Society of Lincoln Center

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