Cheryl Dunye - Director, Screenwriter, Film & Media Maker

Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye is a director, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose work explores issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

Her work is characteristically postmodern in the self-referential disclosing of Dunye's role as both actor and director. Combining intensely personal accounts with humor, Dunye's films and videos are engaging and provocative, revealing the complexities and struggles she has faced, as well as her happiness and pride, in being an African-American lesbian.

Cheryl Dunye, who graduated with an MFA from Rutgers University, has been a video art practitioner for well over a decade, making such pieces as She Don't Fade, Vanilla Sex, The Potluck and the Passion, and Greetings from Africa. See the Dunye Filmography for a complete listing of films. For more information on Cheryl Dunye, see her Resume or read her Bio.

My Baby's Daddy, directed by Cheryl Dunye from a committee-written script, follows three bachelor buddies on a journey toward maturity initiated by the simultaneous pregnancy of their girlfriends. Starring Eddie Griffen of the movie "Undercover Brother" Anthony Anderson from the new movie "Kangaroo Jack" and Micheal Imperioli from "The Sparanos". More...

Stranger Inside, based on four years of research into the lives of incarcerated women. View photos from the production of Stranger Inside. For more info on the film and its premiere on HBO go to hbo.com.

Order "Stranger Inside" from Wolfe Video or, the HBO Store

In The Watermelon Woman Dunye displays her passion for uncovering the hidden histories and continuities of black lesbian life at the same time working towards cinematic representations of black women that refute racist stereotypes. View a Video Clip from The Watermelon Woman, produced by Barry Swimar (Paris is Burning) and Alexandra Juhasz.

Order "The Watermelon Woman" from First Run Features or Wolfe Video

Cheryl Dunye Biography

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			Cheryl Dunye is a director, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose work explores issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Her work is characteristically postmodern in the self-referential disclosing of Dunye's role as both actor and director. Combining intensely personal accounts with humor, Dunye's films and videos are engaging and provocative, revealing the complexities and struggles she has faced, as well as her happiness and pride, in being an African-American lesbian. Cheryl Dunye, who graduated with an MFA from Rutgers University, has been a video art practitioner for well over a decade, making such pieces as She Don't Fade, Vanilla Sex, The Potluck and the Passion, and Greetings from Africa. See the Dunye Filmography for a complete listing of films. For more information on Cheryl Dunye, see her Resume or read her Bio.




My Baby's Daddy, directed by Cheryl Dunye from a committee-written script, follows three bachelor buddies on a journey toward maturity initiated by the simultaneous pregnancy of their girlfriends. Starring Eddie Griffen of the movie "Undercover Brother" Anthony Anderson from the new movie "Kangaroo Jack" and Micheal Imperioli from "The Sparanos". More...

	Stranger Inside, based on four years of research into the lives of incarcerated women. View photos from the production of Stranger Inside. For more info on the film and its premiere on HBO go to hbo.com. Order "Stranger Inside" from Wolfe Video or, the HBO Store

In The Watermelon Woman Dunye displays her passion for uncovering the hidden histories and continuities of black lesbian life at the same time working towards cinematic representations of black women that refute racist stereotypes. View a Video Clip from The Watermelon Woman, produced by Barry Swimar (Paris is Burning) and Alexandra Juhasz. Order "The Watermelon Woman" from First Run Features or Wolfe Video

		Cheryl Dunye Biography




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