Rue Cases-Nègres
The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.
Based on a novel by Joseph Zobel. In the 1930s in Martinique, young Joseph and his grandmother, Maman Tine, live on Cases-Nègres Street. Located in the middle of a sugarcane plantation, the street consists of a row of wooden shacks, most of them deserted by adults who have gone to work in the fields. To get Joseph out of this harsh world, Maman Tine pushes him to pursue his studies.
Euzhan Palcy
Euzhan Palcy (born January 13, 1958) is a film director, writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. When she directed A Dry White Season in 1989, she was the first black woman director of a film produced by a major Hollywood studio. Palcy is the first black director (male or female) to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination and the first black director to win a César Award, the highest French film award. She is also the first black director to win a Venice Film Festival Award (Silver Lion).
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