The Watermelon Woman

TCM's original profile of Cheryl Dunye, Director Of The Week in TCM's Women Make Film series, and director of The Watermelon Woman, 1996.

Working up to the presenting the title, Cheryl Dunye plays a character named-for and modeled-on herself, addressing her own camera, and introducing the (fictional!) subject of her documentary, in the first feature from the acclaimed experimental writer-director and academic, The Watermelon Woman, 1996.

First events, her video crew shooting a suburban Philadelphia wedding, the writer-director Cheryl Dunye playing kind-of herself, and Valarie Walker her colleague Tamara, in the documentary-styled narrative feature, the award-winning and widely praised The Watermelon Woman, 1996.