Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye
Born	May 13, 1966 (1966-05-13) (age 45) Liberia
Education	BA at Temple University. MA at Rutgers University
Occupation	film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, actress
Website
http://www.cheryldunye.com/

Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress. Dunye is a lesbian^[1] and her work often concerns themes of race, sexuality and gender, particularly issues relating to black lesbians.

Dunye was born in Liberia. She has taught at UC Riverside, Temple University, and Pitzer College.^[2]

She is currently a associate professor at the California College of the Arts, and a mother of two children.^[3]

Film career

Dunye started her career with six short films which have been collected on DVD as The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye.^[4][5] Dunye's feature debut was The Watermelon Woman (1996), a film which explored the history of black women and lesbians in film.^[6]

She directed the 2001 television movie Stranger Inside based on the experiences of African-American lesbians in prison.^[7]

Taking a turn from self-written lesbian-focused films, she directed My Baby's Daddy starring Eddie Griffin, Michael Imperioli, and Anthony Anderson in 2004, although a character in the film turns out to be lesbian.^[8]

She directed The Owls, co-written with novelist Sarah Schulman, which made its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is about a group of "Older, Wiser Lesbians" (an acronym of which provides the title) who accidentally kill a younger woman and try to cover it up.^[9] The cast includes Guinevere Turner and V.S. Brodie, who had appeared together in the 1994 lesbian-themed film Go Fish and The Watermelon Woman, as well as Dunye, Lisa Gornick, Skyler Cooper, and Deak Evgenikos.^[9]

As of 2010, Dunye is working on a film called Adventures in the 419, also co-written with Schulman, which was selected as one of the works-in-progress films in the Tribeca All Access program during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.^[10][11] The film is set in Amsterdam and is about 419 scams among the immigrant community.^[11]

Filmography

Director

• Janine (1990)
• She Don't Fade (1991)
• Vanilla Sex (1992)
• An Untitled Portrait (1993)
• The Potluck and the Passion (1993)
• Greetings from Africa (1994)
• The Watermelon Woman (1996)
• Stranger Inside (2001) (TV)
• My Baby's Daddy (2004)
• The Owls (2010)

Awards

• 1996: Audience Award at LA Outfest for Outstanding narrative feature - The Watermelon Woman
• 1996: Teddy Award for Best feature film - The Watermelon Woman
• 2001: Special Jury Award from the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Stranger Inside
• 2001: Audience Award for best narrative feature - Stranger Inside
• 2002: Audience Award and Special Mention at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival for Stranger Inside
• 2002: Audience Award from the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the Audience Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.

References

1. ^ "Cheryl Dunye — Director, Screenwriter, Film & Media Maker". Cheryl Dunye.com. http://www.cheryldunye.com/. Retrieved 2007-06-30. 
2. ^ "Faculty: Cheryl Dunye". Temple University. http://www.temple.edu/newtechlab/fma/faculty-cd.html. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
3. ^ "Faculty - Cheryl Dunye". California College of the Arts. http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/cdunye. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
4. ^ Hardy, Ernest (2009-05-07), "Cheryl Dunye: Return of the Watermelon Woman", LA Weekly, http://www.laweekly.com/2009-05-07/film-tv/cheryl-dunye-return-of-the-watermelon-woman/, retrieved 2010-04-27 
5. ^ Dunye, Cheryl (1992), "Janine, (1990) & She Don't Fade (1991)", FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication (2), http://www.e-felix.org/issue2/Dunye.html, retrieved 2010-04-27 
6. ^ Keough, Peter (1997-05-08), "Slice of life — The Watermelon Woman refreshes", The Phoenix, http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/movies/reviews/05-08-97/THE_WATERMELON_WOMAN.html, retrieved 2010-04-27 
7. ^ Marcus, Lydia (2001-07-03), "Cell Out", The Advocate: 54, http://books.google.com/books?id=-mIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54, retrieved 2010-04-27 
8. ^ Harvey, Dennis (2004-01-11), "My Baby's Daddy", Variety, http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117922802.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0, retrieved 2010-04-27 
9. ^ ^{a b} Felperin, Leslie (2010-02-21), "The Owls", Variety, http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942266.html?categoryid=31&cs=1, retrieved 2010-04-27 
10. ^ Williams, Janette (2010-04-03), "Local filmmaker heading to Tribeca film fest", Pasadena Star-News, http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_14814489, retrieved 2010-04-27 
11. ^ ^{a b} Knegt, Peter (2010-03-22), "Tribeca All Access Sets 24 Projects For Seventh Edition", indieWire, http://www.indiewire.com/article/tribeca_all_access_sets_24_projects_for_seventh_edition/, retrieved 2010-04-27 

• Juhasz, Alexandra. Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video. 

External links

• Official site
• Cheryl Dunye at the Internet Movie Database
• Video Interview with Cheryl Dunye at QFest 2010
• Cheryl Dunye at the California College of the Arts

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Name	Dunye, Cheryl
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Date of birth	1966-05-13
Place of birth	Liberia
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