- KASI LEMMONS, THE CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE (2001)
Like her husband Vondie Curtis-Hall, Lemmons acts as well as directs. Her projects include Eve’s Bayou (1997) and Talk to Me (2007), both which focus primarily on African-American subject matter. However, her fearlessness behind the camera probably became most apparent when she took on the task of directing Samuel L. Jackson in the 2001 film, The Caveman’s Valentine, about a Juilliard trained homeless man trying to track down a killer. Although the film went underappreciated, some could argue the daring project was a precursor to Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.‘s The Soloist.