Euzhan Palcy

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Euzhan Palcy (born January 13, 1958) is a film director from Martinique, France. Notable for being the first Black woman to direct a mainstream Hollywood film: A Dry White Season which starred Donald Sutherland and Marlon Brando. She moved to Paris in 1975, and in 1983, won the Silver Lion award for her first film, Rue Cases Negres.

She has produced and directed a number of projects for both movies and TV. These projects include:

• Parcours de dissidents (2006) (TV)
• The Killing Yard (2001) (TV)
• Ruby Bridges (1998) (TV)
• Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History (1994)
• Comment vont les enfants (1993) (segment "Hassane")
• Siméon (1992) (also story)

Movies:

• A Dry White Season (1989) (screenplay)
• Rue cases nègres (1983)
• Atelier du diable, L' (1982)
• The Messenger (1975) (TV)
• Parcours de dissidents (2006) (TV)
• Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History (1994)
• Dionysos (1986)
• The Messenger (1975) (TV) (screenplay) (story)
• Sisters in Cinema (2003) .... Herself

[edit] External links

• Euzhan Palcy at the Internet Movie Database