A PROGRAM OF LOGAN CENTER’S DIGITAL STORYTELLING INITIATIVE

This film series happens on Sundays, Jul 9-Aug 27, 1-4pm / Screening Room
Seating is limited; please RSVP

The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl’s own life as she navigates a new relationship with a white girlfriend (Guinevere Turner). Balancing breezy romantic comedy with a serious inquiry into the history of Black and queer women in Hollywood, The Watermelon Woman slyly rewrites long-standing constructions of race and sexuality on-screen, introducing an important voice in American cinema. Learn more >>

Screening Freedom Schedule
Seating is limited; please RSVP

• Sun, Jul 9:
  Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove, 2021)+ SSHMP Selections

• Sun, Jul 16:
  The Cry Of Jazz (Edward Bland, 1959) + Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens, 1959) + SSHMP Selections

• Sun, Jul 23:
  The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

• Sun, Jul 30:
  As Above, So Below (Larry Clark, 1973)

• Sun, Aug 6:
  Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins, 1982)

• Sun, Aug 13:
  Compensation (Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1999)

• Sun, Aug 20:
  The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022)

• Sun, Aug 27:
  Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1993)