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Kasi Lemmons

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5 years

#SelfMadeNetflix is out March 20th! So proud to be apart of this project about Madam CJ Walker!! @strongblacklead

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@HarrietFilm trailer out now! In theaters on November 1st!

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I’m so excited, humbled, inspired and deeply grateful to be on this journey, with such exceptionally talented people. More to come!

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Cynthia Erivo’s Harriet Tubman Movie Lands at Focus – Variety

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@IssaRae So fucked up. But in a way he won. Can you imagine that devastating diagnosis and then getting to be Black Panther? I’m so sad, but proud💔

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At first Diahann was uncertain about Elzora’s face paint. But then she added the ash dot. She was still beautiful. 💔

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The Met Will Stage Its First Opera by a Black Composer

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CONGRATULATIONS CYNTHIA!! CONGRATULATIONS JOSHUAH!! CONGRATULATIONS TEAM HARRIET!!

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Cynthia Erivo’s Harriet Tubman Movie Lands at Focus – Variety

Cynthia Erivo’s Harriet Tubman Movie Lands at Focus

Focus Features has come on board "Harriet," a feature film chronicling the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman with Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo in the lead.

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3 years

So damn proud of this man!! @T_Blanchard the first black composer in @MetOpera history!!! Congratulations to everyone involved in FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES!! It was a magical night at the opera!!!

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Box Office Milestone: 'Harriet' Crosses $40 Million in the U.S. via @thr

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5 years

#johnsingleton was one of the first to cheer me on to make a feature after he saw my short. He was always there for all of us💔

JulieDash

@JulieDash

5 years

#johnsingleton Needless to say we go way, way back... There are no words to convey the absolute loss and sadness I feel right now. John was there for his fellow filmmakers, always. All we had to do was look up and he would be there smiling and applauding our efforts.

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So proud of @AVAETC for @13THFilm her searingly brilliant indictment of the U.S. system of mass incarceration. Urgently important right now!

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20th Anniversary Special: Cast Of 'Eve's Bayou' Talks About Film's Lasting Legacy via @TimeInc

Cast Of 'Eve's Bayou' Talks About Film's Lasting Legacy | Essence

Lynn Whitfield, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Meagan Good, Jake Smollett and director Kasi Lemmons talk about the film on its anniversary.

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7 years

I'm heartbroken at the passing of the great Jonathan Demme. What a wonderful man. I'll never forget his kindness & humanity. Love you JD.

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3 years

Bookends. I am honored to have directed the final hour of this series honoring the lives and legacy of Emmett and Mamie Till. Working with this extraordinary group of creators, @GPBmadeit , @TinaMabry , @JulieDash , and Marissa Jo Cerar, was a gift. Thank you. January 20.

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@GPBmadeit

3 years

Emmett and Mamie Till. Their story. Our story. Privileged to direct the first hour of this limited series event. And work with such a passionate group of artists. Grateful to the family for their belief in what we are putting into the world. #WomenOfTheMovement January 6

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4 years

White Americans, your lack of imagination is killing us - The Washington Post

Opinion | White Americans, your lack of imagination is killing us

If you see African Americans only as diversions or as victims, you'll never know us as fully human.

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5 years

SELF MADE - NOW on Netflix!! #SelfMadeNetflix

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5 years

I’ve been in talent heaven for the past year. So grateful!

Shadow and Act

@shadowandact

5 years

#MadamCJWalker : @TiffanyHaddish , @CarmenEjogo , @BlairUnderwood and more join @OctaviaSpencer in @Netflix limited series executive produced by @KingJames . Details:

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5 years

#WomenMadeSelfMade ❤️

DeMane Davis

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5 years

Pinching myself. Like, regularly. #SelfMade #InspiredByMadamCJWalker premieres March 20 on @netflix Hot Damn. @strongblacklead #SelfMadeNetflix

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9 years

Very proud to have passed the test!

TIFF

@TIFF_NET

9 years

EVE'S BAYOU (Kasi Lemmons, 1997) | Women-directed films passing the DuVerynay + Bechdel Test

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5 years

CONGRATULATIONS @CynthiaEriVo SO PROUD!!!❤️

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5 years

Great panel with @oliviawilde @MVFilmFest

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8 years

Along with @ava 's searing & urgent @13THFilm I urge you to see, @IAmNotYourNegro . Every emotion I'm feeling right now is in these two docs.

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6 years

Congratulations @SpikeLee on BlacKkKlansman winning Le Grand Prix at Cannes!!

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8 years

Sad to say goodbye to @AishaHinds but so honored to have worked with her and all the splendid cast of #ShotsFired

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Hour 5 of #ShotsFired , where @GPBmadeit and I are representing 27% of the 1.3% of minority women directors.

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@kasi_lemmons

5 years

Just wrapped my block of Madam CJ Walker! What an intense and wonderful time! @DeManeDavis is up next. Go Demane!! Have a great Day 1!!😘

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@SpikeLeeJoint @SylviaObell @TrevellAnderson @MzGossipGirl @JasmynBeKnowing It was my very first movie and my scene was with YOU!!

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8 years

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." - W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk.

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4 years

Join a live conversation with me, @MsLynnWhitfield , @T_Blanchard , & @MeaganGood today at 5:30 PM CT/6:30PM ET. Register free at + join a live-tweet watch party using #EvesBayouReunion at 3:30PM CT/4:30PM ET via @NOFS ! See you there!

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4 years

What a joy this was. Love you all❤️

New Orleans Film Society

@NOFS

4 years

Thanks to everyone who tuned into #EvesBayouReunion live. If you missed the livecast, watch the recording of the live conversation with @kasi_lemmons , @MsLynnWhitfield , @MeaganGood , @jurneesmollett , and @T_Blanchard at !

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4 years

2 black women filmmakers, 5 movies each. Real talk between real friends. Friday. Me and @GPBmadeit

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8 years

Shout out for the 1.3% of minority women. We're out here, fighting the good fight. What doesn't kill you...

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5 years

Celebration Of Black Cinema 2019 Honorees: Murphy, Long, Ejiofor, Lemmons – Deadline

Eddie Murphy, Nia Long, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kasi Lemmons To Be Honored At Critics Choice Celebration...

Eddie Murphy, Nia Long, Chiwetel Ejiofor and director Kasi Lemmons will be honored at the Celebration of Black Cinema.

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5 years

Euzhan was one of my inspirations; that there was a sister out there who wasn’t afraid of magic realism or politics. See you at TIFF @Euzhan

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9 years

Kasi Lemmons, Indigenous Media & More Partner to Launch Mentorship Program for New Female Writers & Directors.

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7 years

Horrifying, but not surprising. He's a cartoon villain, but real. It's a nightmare we can't wake up from. Yet. But we will. #resist

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

@KHayhoe

7 years

The biggest loser if the US pulls out of Paris is likely to be the US itself. #parisclimateagreement

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4 years

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! @octaviaspencer SO well deserved. I’m so lucky to have been in the room where it happened!! 👊🏽❤️❤️❤️🍾🥂

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8 years

I'm a mother, a professor & spend the rest of my time trying to make films. It's not a crime, it's a life.

Cinemonster🧟‍♂️🎬🤘🖤 @cinemonster.bsky.social

@ELCinemonster

8 years

Its a crime that @kasi_lemmons has made as few films as she has. Eve's Bayou was 19 years ago. #WomenDirectors

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5 years

NAACP Image Awards: 'Harriet' Leads Film Nods With 10 Nominations via @THR

NAACP Image Awards: ‘Harriet’ Leads Film Nominations With 10

A complete list of the 2020 NAACP Image Awards nominations.

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@kasi_lemmons

7 years

Pretty damn excited about this!! What awesome company to be creating with!

Terence Blanchard

@T_Blanchard

8 years

The crew for the next Opera #KasiLemmons #Director , @CharlesMBlow #Writer +me, "Fire Shut Up In My Bones" the Opera.

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8 years

@MozzleStead I like messy characters. Anti-heroes. I love the gray areas of humanity. I love stories that give a new perspective.

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5 years

Congratulations team Harriet!! It’s so dope to be recognized by an organization that is the result of Harriet’s struggle & accomplishments!

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NAACP Image Awards: 'Harriet' Leads Film Nods With 10 Nominations via @THR

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5 years

@ava @netflix CONGRATULATIONS!!!! So well deserved!! ❤️

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8 years

"Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs." REALLY? Racist.

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5 years

So much mourning the last few day and now Toni. My heart is heavy, but she gave us so much. Toni Morrison literally changed my life💙

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5 years

Toni Morrison Dies: ‘Beloved’ Author Was 88 via @Deadline

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"We are not more lawless than the white race, we are more often arrested, convicted and mobbed." -W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk.

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8 years

Good art should be personal, painful and somewhat embarrassing. Bey's a true storyteller. Love #LEMONADE

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🔜 NYFF 🦩

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8 years

Love how #LEMONADE echoed films like @JulieDash 's DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, @kasi_lemmons ' EVE'S BAYOU, & Darnell Martin's I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

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8 years

You deserve it @ava

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4 years

Fuck

The Associated Press

@AP

4 years

BREAKING: 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer, representative tells AP. Find updates here:

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9 years

@WeAreEpicFilms success isn't guaranteed. You have to enjoy the artistic journey.

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@kasi_lemmons

3 years

Voter suppression laws have passed in 19 states, with hundreds of other bills pending throughout the US. That’s why federal legislation protecting voting rights for all is crucial. Join me and @NAACP_LDF in urging your US senators to #RestoreTheVRA by calling (202) 224-3121.

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4 years

This article gives context to the systematic racism and white privilege on sickening display right now in America.

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8 years

@KweenJude92 I love prep because you're making your perfect film, production because it's so exciting and post because it's most creative.

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8 years

Amazing theater last night watching David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig rock the bard! Kudos to director Sam Gold and entire company! Excellent.

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8 years

It's very clear that one woman is qualified to lead our country, and one man represents a clear and present danger to our democracy.

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@kasi_lemmons

7 years

A cellphone is not a gun, motherf#*%ers! #stephonclark

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4 years

Kendrick Sampson, Tessa Thompson and Over 300 Black Artists and Execs Call for Hollywood to Divest From Police (EXCLUSIVE) via @variety

Kendrick Sampson, Tessa Thompson and Over 300 Black Artists and Execs Call for Hollywood to Divest...

Kendrick Sampson and Tessa Thompson have written a letter asking Hollywood to divest from the police and invest in the Black community.

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9 years

@luvnikii I did imagine a sequel. I'm not through with the Folks in Eve's Bayou. But I was a little afraid to mess it up.

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5 years

My first movie!! #SchoolDazeOn Netflix

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So FUCKED UP. Just don’t ask why we’re mad.

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@kasi_lemmons

5 years

Eric Garner’s death will not lead to federal charges for N.Y.P.D. officer - The New York Times

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What a pleasure it was working with these women!! Loved every second. Tune in Wed for Hour 5 of #ShotsFired ! @DeWandaWise @marissathejo

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45 admires Putin's "strong control" over his people, but Americans don't want to be ruled, because the First Amendment matters #TakeTheKnee

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#DoTheRightThing

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8 years

Of course master DP Rodrigo Prieto takes an awesome selfie @sundancelabs Such a fan! Would love to work with you!

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@kasi_lemmons

8 years

I'll make many more. I'm so down for this fight. And thanks!

Cinemonster🧟‍♂️🎬🤘🖤 @cinemonster.bsky.social

@ELCinemonster

8 years

Its a crime that @kasi_lemmons has made as few films as she has. Eve's Bayou was 19 years ago. #WomenDirectors

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8 years

Premiere of #ShotsFired Wednesday night, 8pm on FOX. Loved working with this lady in Hour 5!!

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9 years

Persevering in show business requires an endless supply of optimism and a deep capacity for disappointment. A sense of humor sure helps!

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5 years

GO @GPBmadeit !!! I know The Old Guard will SLAY because Gina Prince-Bythewood made it!!! Happy Day 1😘🥂💃🏽

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4 years

Today marks one year since #BreonnaTaylor was killed. Join me, @NAACP_LDF & on-the-ground Louisville organizations in calling on your Senators to support the passing of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act which reduces police racial bias and violence against people of color.

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8 years

I'm gonna miss Obama

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9 years

With advisors Ed Harris and Catherine Hardwicke. Sundance is the art injection for show business malaise. http://t.co/48SayapyQU

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@kasi_lemmons

8 years

In Havana with the brilliant @Laura_Karpman , Nora and @Vondie_Curtis_H . So much fun!! Thanks @TheAcademy !

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@kasi_lemmons

5 years

So damn proud to be a part of this history in the making!!! Congratulations @T_Blanchard @CharlesMBlow

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

@OTSL

5 years

Sometimes you've gotta just leave it in the road...all the way to @MetOpera !! Congratulations to real-life inspiration @CharlesMBlow #OTSLFire composer @T_Blanchard & librettist @kasi_lemmons 🔥🔥

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4 years

It has a name. Call it out. #kneeneck As in “We don’t want favors, just get your knee off my neck.”

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