The Watermelon Woman [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"The first film by and about an African-American lesbian, writer-director Cheryl Dunye's fantasy is a ""mockumentary,"" focusing on recapturing the life and times of a fictionalized 1930s Hollywood actress. Dunye plays herself as a video store employee who yearns to be a director. She decides to make a documentary about Fae Richards (Lisa Marie Bronson), a forgotten African-American actress from the 1930s. Dunye discovers the woman, who often played degrading roles as a ""mammy"" in Hollywo...