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.