Euzhan Palcy Director, Scriptwriter www.euzhanpalcy.com

Over the past twenty years, Palcy has been consistent with her compassion for humanity through her involvement in films. A native of Martinique, she began on her path at the age of fourteen by creating a shadow-play device. By seventeen, she wrote and directed The Messenger for Martinique television. Palcy went on to earn a degree in French Literature at the Sorbonne in 1975, and later a film degree from the Louis Lumiere School of Cinema. Over the past twenty years, Euzhan Palcy has received numerous awards including the Prix de la Jeuness at the 1993 Milan Film Festival, the 1989 Orson Wells Special Achievement Award, and the Silver Lion Award at the 1983 Venice Film Festival.

Palcy’s feature film debut was Sugar Cane Alley. This heart-warming drama about an impoverished family’s life on a sugar cane plantation won over seventeen international prizes. Its international success put Euzhan Palcy on the map as the first Black female director's work to be produced by a major Hollywood studio. She directed the 1989 anti-Apartheid film, A Dry White Season. Palcy went on to direct Simeon and Aire Cesaire in the ‘90s. In 1998, she produced and directed Walt Disney Television’s two-hour civil rights drama, Ruby Bridges, which aired on ABC.

Between her residences of Los Angeles and Paris, Euzhan continues to write, produce and direct compelling screenplays that entertain and enlighten audiences worldwide. Future projects include: The Bessie Coleman Saga, and Toussaint Louverture. Palcy is fluent in English and French, and can conduct lectures in either of these languages. Palcy is the 2001 recepient of the Cannes Film Festival Sojourner Truth Award

www.euzhanpalcy.com

Filmography:
The Killing Yard (Paramount/Showtime Pictures Production) 2001
The Ruby Bridges Story (1998)
Simeon (1992)
Aime Cesaire, A Voice For History (A Trilogy) (1995)
Hassane (1990)
A Dry White Season (1989)
Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
The Devil's Workshop (1982)
The Messenger (1975)

Lecture Topics:
Script writing, Directing, Film Production-Independent & Commercial, Cinema & Human Rights Issues