Cheryl Dunye on Inventing a Film Genre
Queer cinema legend Cheryl Dunye has made Oakland her home since 2010. She talks about making film in the margins and how that led to the Dunyementary style.
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Show Notes
Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye is a legend. She’s best known for her seminal film, Watermelon Woman, which takes a critical look at the depiction of Black women in cinema; 2021 marks 25 years since it debuted.
In making that film, Dunye, a graduate of Temple University and Rutgers University, created her own style of filmmaking known as “Dunyementary.”
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