Movie Info: Watermelon Woman (1996)

Director: Cheryl Dunye

Writer: Cheryl Dunye, Douglas McKeown

Producer: Producer: Alexandra Juhasz, Barry Swimar
Co-Producer: Cate Wilson
Executive Producer: Michael Light

Genre: Comedy, Comedy Drama, Comedy Film, Drama, Lgbt-Related Film, Romance, Romance Film

Cheryl, a young Black lesbian filmmaker in Philadelphia, embarks on a project to uncover the life of The Watermelon Woman, a Black actress from the 1930s who played 'mammy' archetypes in films. As Cheryl investigates, she discovers that the actress, Fae Richards, had a long affair with Martha Page, ...