- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 13, 1958
- Place of Birth
- Martinique, French West Indies
Euzhan Palcy
Born January 13, 1958, in Martinique, French West Indies, Euzhan Palcy is a leader for black people, especially black women, in cinema. She is a screenwriter, producer and director. After studying the likes of Billy Wilder and Orson Welles and receiving a few degrees, including one from Louis Lumière College, she directed her first feature, Sugar Cane Alley (1983), in Paris for less than a million dollars. The film is about an impoverished black family making sacrifices for a young boy on a plantation in Martinique during the 1930s. It won numerous awards internationally, among them the César Award and the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion. Palcy's second feature, A Dry White Season (1989), explored the politics of South African apartheid, beckoning actor Marlon Brando to end his nine-year retirement to portray lawyer Ian McKenzie in it. With A Dry White Season, Palcy became the first bla…
Filmography
movieReel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Self
movieScreenwriters on Screenwriting
2008
tvThe Brides of Bourbon Island
2007 · Writer, Director, Creator
movieJourney of the Dissidents
2006 · Director, Writer
Sisters in Cinema
movieSisters in Cinema
2003 · Self
movieThe Killing Yard
2001 · Director
movieRuby Bridges
1998 · Director, Co-Producer
movieAimé Césaire: A Voice for History
1995 · Director, Writer
tvAimé Césaire: A Voice for History
1995 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieIn Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994 · Self
movieSiméon
1992 · Director, Writer, Producer, Story
movieHow Are The Kids?
1992 · Director
movieA Dry White Season
1989 · Director, Screenplay
movieCalling the Shots
1988 · Self
movieSugar Cane Alley
1983 · Writer, Director
movieThe Devil's Workshop
1981 · Director
The Messenger
movieThe Messenger
1975 · Director, Editor, Writer, Story
movieThe Producer/Director Relationship
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