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• Title:The watermelon woman / written and directed by Cheryl Dunye ; produced by Barry Swimar, Alexandra Juhasz ; Dancing Girl Productions.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : First-Run Features ; Dancing Girl Productions, 1997.
  [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
  ©1997
  

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• Access Expiry Date:License expires: 2025-01-06
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Richards, Fae.
  Dunye, Cheryl.
  Turner, Guinevere.
  African American actresses.
  Lesbians.
  Documentary films.
  
• Genre/Form:Feature films.
  
• Description:1 online resource (1 video file (85 min.)) : colour, sound.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Educational use and Personal use.
  
• Summary:Cheryl Dunye plays a version of herself in this witty, nimble landmark of New Queer Cinema. A video store clerk and fledgling filmmaker, Cheryl becomes obsessed with the "most beautiful mammy," a character she sees in a 1930s movie. Determined to find out who the actress she knows only as the "Watermelon Woman" was and make her the subject of a documentary, she starts researching and is bowled over to discover that not only was Fae Richards (Lisa Marie Bronson) a fellow Philadelphian but also a lesbian. The project is not without drama as Cheryl's singular focus causes friction between her and her friend Tamara (Valarie Walker) and as she begins to see parallels between Fae's problematic relationship with a white director and her own budding romance with white Diana (fellow filmmaker Guinevere Turner).
  
• Notes:"Copyright 1997 Cheryl Dunye and Dancing Girl Productions"
  Originally produced by First Run Features in 1997.
  Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Kanopy, viewed January 14, 2021).