Cheryl Dunye
Cheryl
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
"Sometimes you have to create your own history."
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Overview
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Cheryl Dunye
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Cheryl Dunye
Writer
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Guinevere Turner
Diana
Valarie Walker
Tamara
Lisa Marie Bronson
Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
Cheryl Clarke
June Walker
Irene Dunye
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Lee Edwards
Ira Jeffries
Shirley Hamilton
Alexandra Juhasz
Martha Page
Camille Paglia
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Sarah Schulman
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V.S. Brodie
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Shelley Olivier
Annie Heath
David Rakoff
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Toshi Reagon
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