Kasi Lemmons

S1, E3: Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons chronicles her storied career, from acting in films such as Spike Lee’s School Daze, to writing and directing her first feature, Eve’s Bayou, and bringing 2019’s Academy Award®-nominated Harriet to life. Crediting the music and Oscar®-nominated performance of actress Cynthia Erivo that helped give the biopic its resonant emotional core, Lemmons breaks down the moving scene in which abolitionist Harriet Tubman experiences freedom for the first time.