Beginning with her critically acclaimed independent feature film
Eve's Bayou (1997), writer-director Kasi Lemmons's mission has been
to push the boundaries that exist in Hollywood. With Eve's Bayou,
her first feature film, Lemmons (b. 1961) accomplished the rare
feat of creating a film that was critically successful and one of
the highest-grossing independent films of the year. Moreover, the
cultural impact of Eve's Bayou endures, and in 2018 the film was
added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry as a
culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film.
Lemmons's directing credits also include The Caveman's Valentine,
Talk to Me, Black Nativity, and, most recently, Harriet, making
Lemmons one of the most prolific and long-standing women directors
in Hollywood. As a black woman filmmaker and a self-proclaimed
black feminist, Lemmons breaks the mold of what is expected of a
filmmaker in Hollywood. She began her career in Hollywood as an
actor, with roles in numerous television series and high-profile
films, including Spike Lee's School Daze and Jonathan Demme's
Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs. This volume
collects fifteen interviews that illuminate Lemmons's distinctive
ability to challenge social expectations through film and actualize
stories that broaden expectations of cinematic black femaleness and
maleness. The interviews reveal Lemmons's passion to create art
through film, intimately linked to her mission to protest
culturally and structurally imposed limitations and push the
boundaries imposed by Hollywood.
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