“A dazzlingly inventive landmark of the New Queer Cinema!” – BFI The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of ...

Growing up in Philadelphia, Cheryl Dunye says she was fascinated by the stories reflected in her mother’s scrapbook photos. She studied filmmaking in college and graduate school but didn’t see people ...

Cheryl Dunye’s indie classic “The Watermelon Woman” marked new territory for the boundaries of race in film, queer cinema and censorship.

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The Belcourt’s Weekend Classics offer something special on Saturday with a 2K HD restoration of 1996’s The Watermelon Woman. Queer black woman Cheryl Dunye wrote and directed the film, in which she ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Tuesday, the Little Theatre and Trillium Health celebrated Pride Month and Juneteenth with a film screening. Organizers showed the 1996 film “The Watermelon Woman,” which follows ...

Cheryl Dunye's 1996 debut, The Watermelon Woman, is being added to the Criterion Collection. It's a long overdue honor for the filmmaker who shaped how Black LGBTQ+ stories are told. Growing up in ...