You 2 D.E.B.S. The Watermelon Woman

Tonight's program showcases the extraordinary variety and vitality of work produced by todayÌs "Sisters in Cinema." In Pascale Simons's You 2, a beautiful young Surinamese woman contemplates coming out but fears her mother's reaction. (2001; 25 mins.)

Angela Robinson's D.E.B.S. is a riotous trailer for a "teen schoolgirls as spies TV series" starring "four very hot girls delivering big karate kicks." Since debuting at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, the short has been given the green light to be made into a feature film. (2002; 11 mins.)

A major contribution to the "new queer cinema" of the 1990s, Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman is the inventive and provocative tale of a black lesbian filmmaker's obsession with the "Watermelon Woman," a 1930s' Hollywood icon rumored to have had an affair with one of Hollywood's only women directors at the time. (1996; 80 mins.)