EPISODE · Dec 13, 2019 · 34 MIN
Harriet with Kasi Lemmons and Rick Famuyiwa (Ep. 240)
from The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast · host Directors Guild of America
Director Kasi Lemmons discusses her new film, Harriet, with fellow director Rick Famuyiwa. The film tells the extraordinary true story of Harriet Tubman, an enslaved person who escaped her captors. After finding liberty in the North, Tubman then risked her freedom and her life to return to the South, and relied upon her courage, ingenuity and tenacity to free hundreds of others and change the course of history. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/Jan2020/Harriet_QnA_1119.aspx
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Director Kasi Lemmons discusses her new film, Harriet, with fellow director Rick Famuyiwa. The film tells the extraordinary true story of Harriet Tubman, an enslaved person who escaped her captors. After finding liberty in the North, Tubman then risked her freedom and her life to return to the South, and relied upon her courage, ingenuity and tenacity to free hundreds of others and change the course of history. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/Jan2020/Harriet_QnA_1119.aspx
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