SPOTLIGHT EUZHAN PALCY
It’s 35 years since the release of film maker Euzhan Palcy’s award-winning directorial debut, Sugar Cane Alley. Her adaptation of Josef Zobel’s semi-auto-biographical novel, Rue cases nègres, is set on Palcy’s home island of Martinique in the 1930s and explores the legacy of the slave trade, as experienced by the central character, a young boy named José.
The first Black woman director of a Hollywood movie, Palcy went on to work with some of the biggest stars
