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With 1989’s A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy became a pioneer: The Martinique-born filmmaker was the first Black woman to direct a studio film; the first Black director to make an Oscar-nominated film; and the only woman to direct Marlon Brando, who emerged from retirement to play a South African civil rights litigator, earning him his eighth and final Oscar nomination (the film’s sole nomination).

It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...

With 1989’s A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy became a pioneer: The Martinique-born filmmaker was the first Black woman to direct a studio film; the first Black director to make an Oscar-nominated film; and the only woman to direct Marlon Brando, who emerged from retirement to play a South African civil rights litigator, earning him his eighth and final Oscar nomination (the film’s sole nomination).

It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...

Barbican in London is shining a light on film-maker’s work as part of Black History Month

The first black woman to direct a Hollywood film says she was turned down repeatedly for projects because her ideas were “too black”, even after Marlon Brando earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in her film about apartheid, A Dry White Season.

Euzhan Palcy – whose work is part of Black History Month seasons at the Barbican in London and Home in Manchester – broke through in the mid-1980s with her film Sugar Cane Alley but stepped away from Hollywood in the 90s after repeated rejections.

Acclaimed filmmaker Euzhan Palcy ("Rue cases nègres," "A Dry White Season," "Les mariées de l'isle Bourbon") among other esteemed filmmakers, scholars and experts, will participate in a day long series of panels and round-tables on October 18th, on the always important topic of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, and how it fits into what today would be considered modern cinema. The event is part of "Movements: The June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive and the University of the Arts London program." Ms Givanni being, of course,  the internationally influential film curator, archivist and international consultant in...