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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmOn the eve of the 65th anniversary of the 1955 torture and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till, writer/director Chinonye Chukwu is set to direct a feature film about his tragic death and the relentless pursuit of justice by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, whose insistence on an open casket funeral for her battered teenage son at the hands of a white mob became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement.The

[The following story contains mild spoilers fromClemency.]To make the death-row drama Clemency, stars Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge and writer-director Chinonye Chukwu immersed themselves in the prison community.Chukwu was initially inspired by the 2011 execution of death-row inmate Troy Davis and wondered about the toll overseeing such events took on the prison wardens.