Cheryl Dunye

Director, Writer, Producer, Founder of Jingletown Films

Anarkali Blossoms is a short film exploring the emotion of loss, and the desperation of trying to hold onto those we love. A young mother unravels, as her plans to move to a new home with her new husband and daughter are disrupted, and her hope for a new life is shattered. Ultimately, she must learn to let go without losing, or take matters into her own hands.

Anarkali Blossoms

Depicts a black teenager in a violent environment, struggling against poverty and isolation.

Wild Thing: A Poem by Sapphire

The story of a black lesbian's relationship with a white, upper middle class high school girl.

Janine

Over twists, presses, and wash-and-goes, filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins other clients and hairstylist DiAna DiAna in her South Carolina salon to discuss the current impact of AIDS on Blacks in the south, and what has changed and stayed the same since DiAna was featured in a seminal short video by Ellen Spiro thirty years ago.

DiAna's Hair Ego Remix

This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora.

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

She Don't Fade is a short film by Cheryl Dunye about a black lesbian's dating life. The film's characters include Shae, Shae's best friend Paula, and two of Shae's love interests.

She Don't Fade

About a moment when the roar of the elements becomes an imperceptible din and all belief is suspended. Jan, a paranoid, upper-class pipedreamer; Centipede, a sexually tepid rockhound; and Patty, strung-out on fantasies of the good life, comprise a stuporous enclave, protecting themselves against elemental moral decay from without.

Strange Weather

Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America features a collection of passionate, determined artists who have taken creation, performance and visual storytelling into their own hands.

Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America

2059, 100 years after the death of Ritchie Valens, a camp / sci-fi / horror, parody sequel to the 1987 film La Bamba. Rob Fatal journeys through the underworld and questions the nature of celebrity, religion, identity and his own desires.

La Bamba 2: Hell Is a Drag

Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye's relationship with her brother is examined in this mixture of appropriated film footage, super 8mm home movies and Dunye's special brand of humor.

An Untitled Portrait

Black - once Blue - is now a trans man who works as a security guard in an apartment complex in Oakland. One night, Black notices an ex- girlfriend partying with some other women in one of the buildings. As none of the other security guards want to watch 'the lezzie party', Black volunteers to, thinking he may resolve some inner conflicts from the past.

Black Is Blue

Sparks fly as racial, sexual and social politics intermingle at a lesbian potluck.

The Potluck and the Passion

Vanilla Sex

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy.

Harlem Fragments

4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.

4400

The eight close-knit siblings of the Bridgerton family look for love and happiness in London high society.

Bridgerton

Follows Julian Kaye after his wrongful conviction release following 15 years in prison as he struggles to find his footing in the modern-day Los Angeles sex industry and navigates his complicated relationships.

American Gigolo

When a commercial airliner suddenly reappears after being missing for five years, those aboard must reintegrate into society.

Manifest

A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.

The Umbrella Academy

Special Agent Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy, is assigned to support the LA field office.

The Rookie: Feds

The series centers around Delilah Connolly, a headstrong, highly principled lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina who left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so she could make raising her kids her #1 priority.

Delilah

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Y is the last surviving male human on the planet. Based on the comic series "Y: The Last Man.

Y: The Last Man

A six-part documentary series chronicling the fight for LGBTQ civil rights in America.

Pride

A teenager with no hands is suspected of knowing who killed her cult's leader and lands in juvenile detention.

Sacred Lies

A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

Lovecraft Country

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

Dear White People

From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

The Chi

A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.

All Rise

A young prodigy living in Florida looks for a way out of his poor neighborhood.

David Makes Man

Residents of a unique apartment building in Greenwich Village build a bonded family of friends and neighbors.

The Village

A history of queer cinema from the women who made it happen.

Dykes, Camera, Action!

'Dropping Penny' follows two trans dogwalkers through a day full of ridiculous misadventures in San Francisco.

Dropping Penny

Cheryl Dunye: An IU Cinema Exclusive

A look at the life and crimes of five women who work at a Florida nail salon.

Claws

Teenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children.

The Fosters

Set in Los Angeles in the 1990s, "Love Is--" follows a young black couple, two people from opposite worlds, as they go through the trials and tribulations of chasing their dreams and learning how to follow their hearts.

Love Is_

A trio of women form a musical group in Atlanta.

Star

MANSFIELD 66/67 is about the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield's life, and the rumours swirling around her untimely death.

Mansfield 66/67

Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

Queen Sugar

The Royal Road

Brother from Another Time

A film student gets obsessed with making his movie as 'HD' as possible, to the point that it begins to have an adverse effect on his work and his relationship with his best friend.

Work Progressed is a dramatic comedy about the contemporary issues of cinema. The film follows a group of colorful characters who related to cinema in one way or another and discuss what the worlds most accessible artistic medium means to them. Work Progressed explores human relationships using film as a means to bring people together.

Work Progressed

Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.

Valencia

Pioneer filmmaker Cheryl Dunye returns with a sassy, raunchy, romantic sex comedy set in the edgy underground of Berlin where love and taboo affairs collide! Cute power femme Dylan (Lil Harlow) and studly hotel clerk Claudia (the sexy Papi Coxxx) are suffering from monogamous relationship blues.

Mommy Is Coming

Godard said all you need to make a movie was a girl and a gun. For these lesbian filmmakers, all you need is an idea and some friends but a girl and a gun will always come in handy.

Hooters!

Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, bringing tension and discord. Little do they know that this mysterious stranger has a plan which includes all four of them.

The Owls

Meet William H. Ashe. That's kind of like William H. Macy, so it must be a sign, right? William Ashe is 30 years old, but he seems more like 16, still living at home with mother with no concrete plans in life other than a belief in signs, which today, have him convinced to be an actor.

Audition

Years ago a city's populace was forced underground by chemical warfare. Drugged by the totalitarian government and forced to become slaves, the working masses started re-purifying the earth's surface with shoddy, antiquated equipment. Decades passed. Enter the present - The workers have no idea that the surface chemicals are leaking down and slowly poisoning them.

Mother

A writer can't seem to find the plot of her erotic short story. But when a beautiful friend comes to visit, the characters in her story come alive.

Inclinations

A trio of young men (Griffin, Anderson, and Imperioli) are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.

My Baby's Daddy

Sisters in Cinema

The 2002 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards

The New Women is a post-apocalyptic adventure about Lisa LaStrada (Mary Woronov) and her small town group of women friends who clearly haven't come a long way, baby. Lisa spends her nights pining over the infidelities of her philandering sheriff husband who is having an affair with her nemesis, Virginia Van Upp (Roma Maffia).

The New Women

Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.

Turnaround

Stranger Inside

Alexandra Juhasz asked twenty-one women to tell their stories-women whose names make up a who's who (and who will be) of independent and experimental film and video.

Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film & Video

From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors. These talented movie-makers enlighten and entertain as they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and of course, love and sex, onscreen and off.

Lavender Limelight

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

The Watermelon Woman

Cheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the '90s.

Greetings from Africa

An enigmatic figure uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.