This past Saturday at the 3rd Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival in San Francisco, out filmmakers Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman, Stranger Inside) and Tina Mabry (Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, Itty Bitty Titty Committee) and Sundance senior programmer Shari Frilot joined together at a panel to discuss Representations of Queer Black Women in the Media. The panel and its after-party were a veritable who's who in queer black filmmaking. Here's a shot of Dunye along with JengoTV's Kamika Dunlap and Debra Wilson (Butch Mystique):

Dunye, Frilot and Mabry stressed the importance of queer women of color just getting out there and doing it — making the films they want to see. Dunye said that she was motivated to make movies "because I wasn't being represented the way that I [wanted]." She recalled the feeling of "wanting to put myself in the picture and literally having to do it because nobody else was going to do it for me." … continue reading