Cheryl Dunye on the NEA
The Watermelon Woman
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2m 51s
In this excerpt from an interview recorded in 2020, director Cheryl Dunye discusses the grant that she received from the National Endowment for the Arts for her film THE WATERMELON WOMAN and the subsequent backlash against its depictions of sexuality.
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