About this title: The first film by and about an African-American lesbian, writer-director Cheryl Dunye's fantasy is a "mockumentary," focusing on recapturing the life and times of a fictionalized 1930s Hollywood actress. Dunye plays herself as a video store employee who yearns to be a director. She decides to make a documentary about Fae Richards (Lisa Marie Bronson), a forgotten African-American actress from the 1930s. Dunye discovers the woman, who often played degrading roles as a "mammy" in Hollywood films, was the secret lover of a white director, Martha Paige. Dunye interviews feminist historian Camille ...
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Format: VHS
Date: November 16, 1999
UPC:720229908337
Description: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valerie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Camille Paglia. Good. No packaging. Originally released: 1996. Language: English. Run time: 81 mins. Ex-rental in plain black case. Side label on tape is handwritten and starting to peel. There are three small store labels on the tape. read more
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