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When /Film put together our list of the 100 Best Films Ever Made, Cheryl Dunye's "The Watermelon Woman" was an immediate contender. A groundbreaking work of queer cinema and the first feature film directed by an out Black lesbian, "The Watermelon Woman" remains a seminal piece of the New Queer Cinema movement and the so-called "controversy" (see: conservative moral panic) changed the way the National Endowment for the Arts would award grant money forever. Before crafting her debut feature, Dunye made a name with her "Dunyementaries," a filmmaking style that blended autobiographical narratives with documentary fiction. Her work often dissected themes of sexuality, race, the American white supremacist society, and the intersectionality of lesbian relationships.

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