The filmmaker stopped by Here & Queer to talk about his first film Chocolate Babies, which is having a deserved second wind nearly 30 years after it came out.
Given its new restoration andwas top of mind during our conversation. The film follows a band of queer, self-described "raging, atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, coloured terrorists" who fight back against homophobic conservative politicians on the streets of New York City. It is a wild and extraordinary film, and more than deserving of its status as one of the great queer films of the 1990s.
Winter says that the film was drawn from his experiences in ACT UP Chicago and in the Black nationalism community. "Because that's the way oppression works. You know, they want to turn the dark-skinned people against light-skinned people, turn the femme people against the masc, turn the older generation against the younger generation, and sow those seeds of dissonance that the purpose of revolutionary organizing and all coming together in a community should be able to solve."Winter shot the film in three weeks on Fuji Film.
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