CLEMENCY (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek), Wendell Pierce (Waiting to Exhale), Aldis Hodge (The Invisible Man), Richard Schiff (Deep Impact), Danielle Brooks (The Day Shall Come), LaMonica Garrett (Primal), Michael O’Neill (Dallas Buyers Club), Michelle C. Bonilla (Model Minority), Vernee Watson-Johnson (Christmas with the Kranks), Dennis Haskins (Just an American), Richard Gunn (Garden Party), Alma Martinez (For Greater Glory)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand), director, writer; Timur Bekbosunov (Blush), Julian Cautherley (Greencard Warriors), Bronwyn Cornelius (Made in China) and Peter Wong (Blush), producers; Kathryn Bostic (Dear White People), composer; Eric Branco (Emerald City), cinematographer; Phyllis Housen (Heavy Petting), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Hard-boiled death row warden Bernadine Williams (Woodard) prepares to execute another inmate, only to find herself battling her own psychological and emotional demons when she forms a connection with the young man she is commissioned to kill…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Alfre Woodard has never been so compelling as an emotionally conflicted death row warden in Chinonye Chukwu’s harrowing and highly acclaimed drama.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 17TH JULY 2020

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