“Sometimes you have to create your own history.”
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Cheryl Dunye
Cheryl
Guinevere Turner
Diana
Valarie Walker
Tamara
Lisa Marie Bronson
Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
Cheryl Clarke
June Walker
Irene Dunye
Self
Brian Freeman
Lee Edwards
Ira Jeffries
Shirley Hamilton
Alexandra Juhasz
Martha Page
Camille Paglia
Sarah Schulman
CLIT Archivist
V.S. Brodie
Karaoke Singer
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
Big Rage
What We Wrote Together
Hazy Grey Skies
Desert Hearts
Beyond Silence
A Perfect Ending
Elena Undone
Bedrooms and Hallways
Step Up
Happiest Season
Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt)
Loving Annabelle
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Strange Days
Casablanca
Mary Poppins
Shortcomings
In & Out
3 Generations