

“Sometimes you have to create your own history.”
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
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June Walker
Mark Kermode Reviews Watermelon Woman (1996)
Featurette
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