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Oct 30, 2019 · Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” is a bold and accomplished exception: this bio-pic of Harriet Tubman develops her actions as a freer of enslaved people with ardent and detailed attention to the...
Feb 24, 2020 · Director Kasi Lemmons writes for Variety during Black History Month and what black history means to her.
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Feb 10, 2023 · Meet Your Maker: Eve's Bayou director Kasi Lemmons reveals her biggest influences. From Toni Morrison to Daughters of the Dust, Lemmons shares what has inspired her work.
- Alamin Yohannes
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Oct 28, 2019 · When Kasi Lemmons got the chance to direct the first feature-length biopic about Harriet Tubman, she faced a delicate challenge. “I really wanted to create a film that a sophisticated...
- Tambay Obenson
Nov 22, 2022 · Kasi Lemmons’ eerie, Southern Gothic directorial feature debut, “ Eve’s Bayou ,” is as elusive twenty-five years later as it was in 1997. It concerns Eve Batiste ( Jurnee Smollett ), the youngest daughter of the respected and popular doctor Louis Batiste ( Samuel L Jackson ). Her family is the center of an affluent Creole-American community.
- Robert Daniels
Feb 2, 2021 · The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is back on track — and Kasi Lemmons, the director of 2019’s “Harriet,” is “thrilled” about it.
Mar 20, 2020 · When director Kasi Lemmons began researching haircare entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker 20 years ago, she was bowled over by what she discovered. “She was a black woman who became the first...
