Nigerian Film Maker, Chinonye Chukwu Wins Sun Dance’s Top Prize

Nigerian film maker, Chinonye Chukwu has emerged the first black woman to win Sun Dance’s top prize. She won the Sun Dance’s festival grand jury prize for her dramatic entry, ‘Clemency’.
According to our source, Chukwu emerged the winner of the festval’s highest honours after she was voted for the individual prizes of her category. Chukwu wrote and directed the Dead Raw Drama starring Afred Woodland as a prison warden struggling with the emotional demands of her job.
The filmmaker after winning the prize, took to her instagram and wrote: “I am so thankful and can’t wait to share this film with the world.
Ava Duvernay, who became the first black to win a directing award at the annual festival in 2012 celebrated Chukwu in a tweet, saying: “Congrats to Chinonye Chukwu and the cast and crew of her film, and all the cast and crew of every film at Sun Dance this year, beautiful Fest, Bravo”.