---
name: "Chinonye Chukwu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chinonye-chukwu"
fi1m_id: "chinonye-chukwu"
imdb_id: "nm2703824"
tmdb_id: 1150804
wikidata_id: "Q63546463"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "19 May 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T03:04:11.389539+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chinonye Chukwu

## Identity

Chinonye Chukwu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chinonye-chukwu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chinonye-chukwu
- **IMDb ID:** nm2703824
- **TMDB ID:** 1150804
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63546463
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinonye_Chukwu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63546463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2703824/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1150804

Director and writer. Born 19 May 1985 in Fiumi, Nigeria.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 19 May 1985, Fiumi, Nigeria
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinonye_Chukwu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63546463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2703824/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1150804

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Clemency*](https://film.one/film/clemency.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Chinonye Chukwu is a Nigerian-American film director and writer. She was born on 19 May 1985 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and later lived in the United States, including Alaska.

She wrote and directed the feature films *Clemency* (2019) and *Till* (2022). *Clemency* premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize; Chukwu was the first black woman to receive the award. She has also directed television, including an episode of the series *Sorry for Your Loss* (2019).

Chukwu holds a bachelor's degree in English from DePauw University and an MFA in film from Temple University. Earlier work includes several short films and the feature *AlaskaLand* (2012).

*Sources: imdb.com, vogue.com, theguardian.com, wikimili.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Till* (2022), Fi1m 80, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/till.md)
- *Clemency* (2019), Fi1m 81, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Till* (2022), Director, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/till.md)
- *Clemency* (2019), Writer, Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)
- *Sorry for Your Loss* (2018), series, Director
- *BANG!* (2016), Producer
- *A Long Walk* (2014), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Bottom* (2013), Director, Producer, Writer
- *alaskaLand* (2013), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Death of a Salesman*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Chinonye Chukwu](https://film.one/media/person/4179803/gallery-84eac24b6e64.jpg) Chinonye Chukwu — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Chinonye_Chukwu_%2846766847504%29.jpg/1280px-Chinonye_Chukwu_%2846766847504%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chinonye Chukwu](https://film.one/media/person/4179803/gallery-597c1d74e915.jpg) Chinonye Chukwu — Image via TMDB

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