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SUMMARY:Watermelon Woman
LOCATION:Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110
DESCRIPTION:Noche de Movies is back! Our monthly movie series returns just 
 in time for those chilly San Francisco summer nights. This month we are ov
 er la luna excited to be screening Cheryl Dunye’s Watermelon Woman. The 
 film will be introduced by Lourdes Figueroa.\n\nA young black lesbian film
 maker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman\, a 1930s black actress
  who played 'mammy' archetypes. Cheryl is young\, Black\, and lesbian\, wo
 rking in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film p
 roject: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly w
 ho appeared in films in the 30s and was known as the Watermelon Woman. Fol
 lowing various leads\, Cheryl discovers the Watermelon Woman's stage name 
 and real name and surmises that the actress had a long affair with Martha 
 Page\, a White woman and one of Hollywood's few female directors. As she's
  discovering these things\, Cheryl becomes involved with Diana\, who's als
 o White. The affair strains Cheryl's friendship with Tamara. More discover
 ies bring Cheryl (and us\, her audience) to new realizations.\n\nhttps://m
 edicinefornightmares.com/events/noche-de-movies-presents-watermelon-woman
URL:https://medicinefornightmares.com/events/noche-de-movies-presents-water
 melon-woman
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