The National Assembly will pay tribute to the Martinican director Euzhan Palcy, during a day which will be dedicated to her on Wednesday May 3, indicated the presidency, Monday April 24. She will receive the medal of the National Assembly at noon, before the screening of her film Rue Cases-Nègres at 7 p.m.
In 1984, Euzhan Palcy was the first female director and the first black artist to receive a César (for the best first work), for Rue Cases-Nègres, as she was only 25 years old. In 1989, with A Dry White Season, a film about Apartheid, she became the first black female director produced by a Hollywood major and the first woman to direct Marlon Brando. The film was nominated for an Oscar the following year. In 2022, she received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.