Kasi Lemmons: Interviews neon Game changer

Game changer

Black performers were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles

”—Lisa See

including Les Raquetteurs (co-directed with Gilles Groulx) and Pour la Suite du Monde (co-directed with Pierre Perrault) reflected a hitherto unacknowledged and unfulfilled need on the part of Québécois society to see their own culture reflected onscreen—and helped spark a cultural renaissance in Quebec

Gerald’s Game

Kasi Lemmons: Interviews neon Game changerBeginning 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