Film Festival – Euzhan Palcy, A Pioneer of Transnational Cinema

You are invited to a very special event with Ms. Euzhan Palcy, director of the classic Sugar Cane Alley (1983) and recipient of a Honorary Oscar in 2022. While any Oscar award is an important prize in itself, the Honorary Oscar is the highest prize one can receive for an entire career in cinema. Among many other things in her 40-year career, Ms Palcy is also the first woman and the first Black director to receive a Cesar Award in France as well as the first Black woman to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio.

This event will be part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival. In addition to 20+ exceptional screenings and many other events, it will include the first-ever symposium devoted to her rich cinematic career, the first-ever screening of the restored version of Sugar Cane Alley on the US East Coast, a photo exhibition of exclusive screenshots and behind-the-scene visuals and a special, 45-minute masterclass offered by Euzhan Palcy, followed by a Q&A session, allowing reflection on both her whole career and her post-Oscar life. These events will take place on Wednesday, April 2, and Thursday, April 3, 2025, on the Princeton University campus.

Sponsors: Department of African American Studies; Graduate Student Government Board; Program in Latin American Studies; Campus Conversations on Identities; Department of Anthropology; Caribbean Graduate Student Association; TigerWell; The Graduate School’s Access, Diversity, and Inclusion; Department of Art & Archeology