USA 1997, 90 min, Dir: Cheryl Dunye
Videographer (and video store assistant), Cheryl (played by director Cheryl Dunye), is working on a film project exploring the life and work of her favourite “mammy” of 30s and 40s cinema, identified only as “The Watermelon Woman”. Her investigations, and a new romance with seductive customer, Diana (Guinevere Turner), push her to live out the very ideas she’s exploring. Part love story, part reinvention of African American film history, The Watermelon Woman is a classic of New Queer Cinema. (MQFF)
Screenings
February 23, 2023
7:00 pm
