By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer 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 ...

It`s a bit more surprising here, because ”A Dry White Season” is the first of these films to be directed by a black (Palcy was born in Martinique and educated in Paris); one somehow expects ...

In 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black female filmmaker to direct a studio movie with the South Africa-set apartheid thriller “A Dry White Season,” starring Donald Sutherland ...