I recently saw a short portion of this film in my cinema class and it's an interesting approach to the documentary in that... it's not. It's a pseudo-documentary that doesn't let us in on the ruse until the credits role. So, an interesting idea is presented: An African American Lesbian is the director and star of this film who attempts to reconstruct the history of a fictional african american lesbian film star: The Watermelon Woman. Her reasoning is that she doesn't have a historical past for her rolemodels, so she'll make one herself. I think it's a pretty interesting idea, and I want to see the rest of the film now that I'm thinking about it, BUT the acting in this movie is SO bad, you'll want to shoot yourself five minutes into the movie, tops. Again, wanna see a movie about African-American Lesbian Filmmakers, this is the one for you... but it's really bad. I feel bad saying this because of her severely marginalized social position, but bad art is bad art no matter who you are.
Review of The Watermelon Woman
