Euzhan Palcy

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Full Name	Euzhan Palcy
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 13, 1958(1958-01-13)
Age	66
Birthplace	Fort-de-France
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Euzhan Palcy Biography

Euzhan Palcy is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on January 13, 1958 in Fort-de-France, United States. Palcy became the first female director hired by an important Hollywood studio. She is the only black director who was able to create within the U.S. a narrative feature against apartheid on silver screen in the 27 years of Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment. The film was a snarky attack on people in the South African oppressive regime and was banned in South Africa for a time. senator Ted Kennedy supported the Filmmaker. Brando’s performance earned him his eighth and final Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and he was awarded the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival. For her extraordinary cinematic achievements, Palcy received the “Orson Welles Award” in Los Angeles. To mark the one-year anniversary of his election, Mandela received Euzhan Palcy to South Africa and granted her an exclusive interview which is been awaiting discovery.

After seeing her works, Robert Redford handpicked her to join at the Sundance director’s Lab (Sundance Institute) which led to her becoming their “American Godfather”.

By 1992, Palcy veered away from the serious subject matter of her previous films to show the spirit and liveliness of her native Martinique with Simeon (1992), a musical comedic fairytale set in the Caribbean and Paris, and the three-part documentary Aimé Césaire, A Voice For History (1994) about the famed Martinique poet, playwright and philosopher. Both garnered numerous awards and international critical acclaim.

Other works include for Disney/ABC Studios, Palcy directed and produced Ruby Bridges (1998), the story of Ruby Bridges, the little New Orleans girl who was the first to integrate the public schools, immortalized in the painting by Norman Rockwell. President Bill Clinton and Disney President, Michael Eisner introduced the film from the White House to American audiences. Palcy’s film won four awards, including The Christopher Awards, The Humanitas Prize, the National Educational Media Network Gold Apple and best performance Young actress award Young Artists Awards.

The film was shot in Paris and with the help by the “French Godfather”, Francois Truffaut and Francois Truffaut, that she was able to make her first film, Sugar Cane Alley (1983). Made for less than $1,000,000 it reveals via the perspective of a small boy the sacrifice and love of a black family who lived on an Martinique sugar plantation in the 1930s. Sugar Cane Alley won more than 17 international awards among them the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion and the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup) for the best lead Actress Awards (Darling Legitimus). The film also received the famous Cesar Award (the French equivalent to an Academy Award) for best first feature film. It was among the firsts to be awarded, as it received an award called the Special Jury Award at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, and its initial Public Award at the Fespaco Africa’s largest film festival.

Euzhan Palcy Net Worth

Euzhan Palcy is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Euzhan Palcy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Euzhan Palcy (born 13 January 1958) is filmmaker, writer as well as a producer in Martinique, French West Indies. Her name is ascribed to her as the first female director of color of a movie produced by the major Hollywood studio (MGM) and for A Dry White Season (1989) and also being the only female director who has produced Marlon Brando, who returned on the big screen following an interval over nine years. Palcy was the very first director of color (male as well as female) to lead an actor to win an Oscar nomination, and also the first director of black descent to be awarded the Cesar Award, the highest French film prize. She’s also the first director of color to be awarded the Venice Film Festival Award (Silver Lion).

Palcy was a child who studied movies by Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Orson Welles. She went to Paris in 1975 in order to obtain an MA on French literature, theatre at the Sorbonne and with a D.E.A. for Art and Archeology as well as a film degree (specializing on cinematography) from the world-renowned Louis Lumiere College.

Marlon Brando was so moved by her next project, A Dry White Season (1989), and her commitment to social change that he came out of a self-imposed retirement, agreeing to act in the film for free. Also starring in the film were actors Donald Sutherland and Susan Sarandon. Palcy adapted A Dry White Season from the novel by South African writer André Brink. The story focuses on the social movements of South Africa and the Soweto riots, and was heralded for putting the politics of apartheid into meaningful human terms. Palcy was so passionate about creating an accurate story depicting the reality of apartheid that she risked her life traveling undercover to South Africa. To research the riots, she was introduced to the people of Soweto township by Dr Motlana (Nelson Mandela’s and Desmond Tutu’s personal physician), while she eluded the South African secret services posing as a recording artist.

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