“Till” will premiere at the New York Film Festival in October.
MGM Studios released the first trailer for its forthcoming biopic “Till” which tells the chilling story of Emmett Till — a 14-year-old black boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
“I’m incredibly proud and excited to premiere my film Till at the 60th New York Film Festival. As a filmmaker, to be embraced by NYFF for this particular feature and to have the opportunity to screen Till for youth nationwide is exhilarating,” director Chinonye ChukwuDirected by Chukwu, the film also stars Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, and Sean Patrick Thomas.
Donham told her husband, Roy Bryant, about the alleged encounter. Enraged that a black boy allegedly came on to his white wife, Bryant and his half-brother John William Milam kidnapped the young teen from his great-uncle’s house two nights later and subsequently beat him, shot him and tossed his body in a river.In her unpublished memoir, Carolyn Bryant Donham, here in 1955, claims she was a victim in the Emmett Till witch hunt.Following a murder trial, an all-white jury acquitted the men.
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