Kasi Lemmons is the director of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Southern Gothic film Eve's Bayou. Lemmons started her film career as an actress, appearing in projects as diverse as The Silence of Lambs, CB4, and Candyman before moving behind the camera. Her other films include Talk To Me, The Caveman’s Valentine, Harriet, her Academy Award-nominated biopic about Harriet Tubman, and the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, starring Naomi Ackie as the powerhouse, iconic singer.
Kasi Lemmons
St. Louis, Missouri
Films
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
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(2022)
A portrait of the complex and multifaceted iconic singer, Whitney Houston.
Harriet
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(2019)
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, this film tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of enslaved people and changed the course of history.
Black Nativity
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(2013)
In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes' celebrated play, the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston(Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother, as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett).
Talk To Me
Watch TrailerThe story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
The Caveman's Valetine
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(2001)
A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy.
Eve's Bayou
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(1997)
What did little Eve see — and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
