Roughly ten months after the airing of Women of the Movement, a six-part ABC miniseries about the horrific 1955 murder of Emmett Till and the relentless pursuit of justice by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, Chinonye Chukwu’s Till (Orion, 10.7), a theatrical feature that apparently tells a similar story, will debut at the 60th New York Film Festival.
Till stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till Mobley and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till. The 14 year-old Till was seized and murdered on 8.28.55, allegedly in response to Till having expressed some form of libidinal interest in Carolyn Bryant, a white, 21-year-old married proprietor of a small grocery store in Money, Mississippi. At the time a fellow of color even broaching the possibility of such a scenario was deemed a hanging offense by Mississippi redneck culture. Carolyn’s scurvy husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were acquitted of murdering Till in a local trial, but they admitted their guilt in a Look1.24.56 magazine article.
