Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | Black is blue
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| Other authors / contributors: | Dunye, Cheryl, screenwriter, film director, actor.
Swimar, Barry, film producer.
Crenshaw, Michelle, cinematographer.
Juhasz, Alexandra, film producer.
Turner, Guinevere, actor.
Taylor, Annie, film producer.
First-Run Features (Firm), publisher.
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
stamping
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
stereo
surround
Dolby Digital 2.0 DVD
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC DVD
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| Notes: | Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Widescreen.
Bonus film: Black is blue (dir. Cheryl Dunye; 16 minutes; 2014).
Director of photography, Michelle Crenshaw ; editor and co-executive producer, Annie Taylor.
Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner.
DVD.
English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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| Summary: | Set in Philadelphia, The Watermelon Woman is the story of Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye), a twenty-something black lesbian struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, a beautiful and elusive 1930s black film actress popularly known as "The Watermelon Woman." While uncovering the meaning of Fae Richards' life, Cheryl experiences a total upheaval in her personal life. Her love affair with Diana (Guinevere Turner, Go Fish), a beautiful white woman, and her interactions with the gay and black communities, are subject to the comic yet biting criticism of her best friend Tamara (Valerie Walker). Meanwhile, each answer Cheryl discovers about the Watermelon Woman evokes a flurry of new questions about herself and her future.
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| Standard no.: | 720229917230
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| Publisher's no.: | FRF 917230D First Run Features
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