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The Watermelon Woman(Movie, 1996)

1h 25min | Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
The Watermelon WomanRating: 3.5/5 (with 2525 votes)
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical "mammy" roles relegated to black actresses during the period. The Watermelon Woman was produced on a budget of $300,000, financed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), as well as a fundraiser, and donations from friends of Dunye. The film was partly inspired by and dedicated to the memory of such Black actresses as Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, and Butterfly McQueen. Fae Richards is a fictional character created by Dunye for the film as both an amalgamation of and stand-in for Black actresses sidelined or forgotten in film history, and as a result of the film's budget being unable to afford archive footage of real-life actresses. The Watermelon Woman premiered at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival. The film received generally positive reviews and is considered a landmark in New Queer Cinema. It gar... ()
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About The Watermelon Woman

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Made by: Dancing Girl
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/07/1996
Cast: Guinevere Turner, Brian Freeman, Camille Paglia, Cheryl Dunye, Sarah Schulman
Director: Cheryl Dunye
Producer: Alexandra Juhasz
Screenwriter: Cheryl Dunye
Film Editor: Cheryl Dunye
Composer: Paul Shapiro

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