A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Cheryl Dunye
as Cheryl
Guinevere Turner
as Diana
Valarie Walker
as Tamara
Lisa Marie Bronson
as Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
Cheryl Clarke
as June Walker
Irene Dunye
as Self
Brian Freeman
as Lee Edwards
Ira Jeffries
as Shirley Hamilton
Alexandra Juhasz
as Martha Page
Camille Paglia
as Self
Sarah Schulman
as CLIT Archivist
V.S. Brodie
as Karaoke Singer
