EUZHAN PALCY

President of the Documentary Jury

In 1983, Euzhan Palcy, film-maker from Martinique, realizes her first full-length film "Rue Cases Nègres", and places French Antilles on the worldmap of the cinematographic art. This French movie, one of the most prize-winning this year, (17 international awards among which the Silver Lion and the Prize of feminine interpretation at the Venice Mostra and the César of the first work)
She is the first black director produced by a Hollywood studio.

In 1989, she gets Marlon Brando to play in "A Season white and dry" produced by the Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

In 1992, she directs "Siméon", who stages for the first time the famous group Kassav.

From 1994 till 1996, she dedicates four movies to the poet and the politician Aimé Césaire, "A Word for XXIth century" (trilogy) and "The fundamental Friend": Césaire / Senghor. After "Ruby Bridges" (1998) presented from the White House, on ABC by president Clinton and The Killing Yard (2001), she returns to France for the shooting of "Roads of Dissidents" (2005). Euzhan Palcy is a "Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Officer in the National Order of the Merit, Honorary citizen of New York, Atlanta, New Orléans. A college in Martinique and a cinema in France are named after her. In May, 2011, the Cannes film festival and the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) in New York paid her tribute.
Since October, 2013, the movies " Rue Cases Nègres" and Siméon ar on I tunes.

Moly (2011) [producer]
"Ce soir (ou jamais!): Episode dated 14 January 2010" (2010) TV Episode [Actress .... Herself]
Zachry (2009) [producer]
Les mariées de l'isle Bourbon (2007) (TV) [Writer] (adaptation and dialogue) (scenario) [Director]
Parcours de dissidents (2006) (TV) [Writer] [Director]
Sisters in Cinema (2003) [Actress .... Herself]
The Killing Yard (2001) (TV) [Director]
... aka "Le massacre d'Attica" - Canada (French title)
Acapulco Black Film Festival (2000) (TV) [Actress .... Herself]
Le combat de Ruby Bridges (1998) (TV) [Director] [co-producer]
... aka "Ruby Bridges" - USA (original title)
Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History (1994) [Writer] [Director] [producer]
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1993) [Actress .... Herself]
Siméon (1992) [Writer] (screenplay) (story) [Director] [producer]
Comment vont les enfants (1992) [Director] (segment "Hassane")
... aka "How Are the Kids?" - USA
"The Media Show: Episode #6.1" (1990) TV Episode [Actress .... Herself]
"Today: Episode dated 15 September 1989" (1989) TV Episode [Actress .... Herself]
Une saison blanche et sèche (1989) [Writer] (screenplay) [Director]
... aka "A Dry White Season" - USA (original title)
"La nuit des Césars: 9ème nuit des Césars (#1.9)" (1984) TV Episode [Actress .... Herself]
Dionysos (1984) [Writer]
Rue cases nègres (1983) [Writer] (writer) [Director]
... aka "Street of the Black Shacks" - USA (literal English title)
... aka "Sugar Cane Alley" - International (English title)
... aka "Rue Cases-Nègres" - Belgium (French title) (imdb display title)
L'atelier du diable (1982) [Writer] (screenplay) (story) [Director] [producer]
... aka "The Devil's Workshop" - International (English title)
The Messenger (1975) (TV) [Writer] (screenplay) (story) [Director] [producer]
... aka "La messagère" - France (Creole title)