Screenwriter: Cheryl Dunye

Producer: Barry Swimar

Vidiots celebrates Video Store Day!

Here’s the quintessential video store movie and a fun and feisty queer romantic comedy from groundbreaking filmmaker Cheryl Dunye. A young black lesbian filmmaker — in between stocking video store shelves and flirting with cute customers — probes into the life of the Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played a number of ‘mammy’ archetypes in early cinema. She begins to see a number of parallels to her own life and her new relationship with a white woman. Dunye manages to create a film that explores potentially divisive ideas of race, gender, and queerness, but never feels didactic or anything less than thoroughly irreverent and entertaining.

And thanks to our friends at Criterion, we will have limited giveaways before the show!

Accessibility Options: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Vidiots celebrates International Video Store Day with a whole day reveling in the glory of physical media and the communal need for public access to video rental stores! We will have specials in the video store, an enormous physical media sale, and a selection of our favorite movies featuring video rental stores on the big screen with limited giveaways at each screening, to relive a magical time when there was a video store in every neighborhood!

From 11:00am – 4:30pm our Microcinema will be packed to the rafters with tons of VHS, DVDs, Blu-Rays and even Laserdiscs for sale at bargain prices!

Thanks to our partners at Paramount, anyone who signs up for an annual Vidiots membership in person (any time that day) will receive a bag of free movie swag. If you’ve been waiting for a sign to become a Vidiots Superfan, here it is!