TEDDY AWARD Winner Cheryl Dunye on queer-feminist afro-american film making
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2016-01-04

"30 Years - 30 Interviews"
Birthday Greetings from Cheryl Dunye
In this interview, the film maker and TEDDY AWARD winner of 1996, Cheryl Dunye, talks about her movie „The Watermelon Woman“. She gives insight to the relevance of movies for the movement of queer afro-american women and explains situation of this movement and its changes over the last 20 years. Furthermore she analyses the relevance of an international queer film award in the USA and presents ideas for a future development of the prize.

About the movie
Cheryl Dunye's debut feature THE WATERMELON WOMAN is as controversial as it is sexy and funny. Cheryl is a twenty-something black lesbian working as a clerk in a video store while struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, an obscure black actress from the 1930's. Cheryl is surprised to discover that Richards (known popularly as "the Watermelon Woman") had a white lesbian lover. At the same time, Cheryl falls in love with a very cute white customer at the video store (Guinevere Turner from Go Fish).
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About this clip
This clip is part of a series dedicated to the 30th birthday of the TEDDY AWARD in 2016. The Teddy winners take a look back in queer film history, reflect on the meaning of a queer film prize and talk about the impact that the TEDDY AWARD had on their films as well as on their artistic lives.