Euzhan Palcy is a pioneering writer, producer, and filmmaker. She is the first Black woman director produced by a major film studio (MGM), the only woman to direct Marlon Brando (A Dry White Season), and the first Black director to win the Cesar Award, France's highest film honor, for Sugar Cane Alley.
Films
The Killing Yard
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(2001)
A man is accused of murdering two of his inmates around the same time as the 1971 Attica prison riots.
Ruby Bridges
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(1998)
When six-year-old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.
Siméon
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(1992)
In a small West Indian village, Siméon, a music teacher and Isidore, his star disciple, a mechanic by necessity and guitarist by passion, shared the same ambition, an impossible dream — to put their island on the world’s music map with Zouk music.
A Dry White Season
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(1989)
A white middle-class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his Black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target. Nominated for an Academy Award. (Marlon Brando, Best Supporting Actor)
Sugar Cane Alley
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(1983)
Adapted from Joseph Zobel’s semi-autobiographical novel, Sugar Cane Alley centers on José (Garry Cadenat), an 11-year-old boy living on a cane sugar plantation under the care of his ailing but fierce-spirited grandmother M’Man Tine (Darling Légitimus) — who yearns to spare him from the same hardships that she has been forced to endure.
