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Cheryl, a young Black lesbian filmmaker from Philadelphia, investigates the life of a mysterious 1930s Black actress known only as “The Watermelon Woman”. Blending fiction, documentary and autobiographical elements, Cheryl Dunye challenges the erasures of film history and seeks to recover the memories of Black and queer women excluded from official archives. A groundbreaking film about representation, desire and the power to rewrite history.
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Cheryl, a young Black lesbian filmmaker from Philadelphia, investigates the life of a mysterious 1930s Black actress known only as “The Watermelon Woman”. Blending fiction, documentary and autobiographical elements, Cheryl Dunye challenges the erasures of film history and seeks to recover the memories of Black and queer women excluded from official archives. A groundbreaking film about representation, desire and the power to rewrite history.
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