Chinonye Chukwu’s sophomore feature Clemency has had long legs this year, debuting to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January before quickly becoming a steady festival favorite around the w…
has had long legs this year, debuting to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January before quickly becoming a steady festival favorite around the world. It was in the States, though, that the film’s subject matter hit the hardest, with Alfre Woodard starring as prison warden Bernadine Williams, a woman fighting to keep herself from unraveling after decades of overseeing state executions.
Speaking to Deadline’s Joe Utichi at The Contenders Los Angeles, Chukwu revealed that the film was the result of a long-standing fascination with America’s penal system. “It really started in September 2011, when Troy Davis was executed,” she said, referring to the controversial case involving the murder of a policeman by a man that many believed to be innocent.
“Those wardens and directors banded together,” she continued, “and urged the governor for clemency, not just on the grounds of Troy’s potential innocence, but they spoke to the emotional and psychological consequences they knew killing Troy would have on those sanctioned to do so.
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