Euzhan Palcy

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 - Sugar Cane Alley] , a poignant film set in the last days of slavery on a small Caribbean island.

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

She is currently developing "Midnight's Last Ride" a poignant, funny story about TOOTS MAYS, an ex-rodeo champion with a secret... he's illiterate. This is due to shoot in 2008.

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