"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."(p.6, Hooks) Many directors uses their work not only as entertainment but as their viewpoint on a matter they feel the world should be aware of. Directors not only give people something to think about but an opening to change the problems among society.According to Bell Hooks, she focus on blackness in films being much of a crucial perspective on color but on 'the perspective, the standpoint, and the politics' on the matter discussed. (p.9. Hooks)


Euzhan Palcy is one of the first black female director to have her work produced by a major Hollywood  studio(MGM). Palcy, who was born in Martinque in 1958,  works explores themes of race, gender, and politics from a  feminist perspective. At an early age , she showed her remarkable talents with the encouragement from her father.  She wrote poetry, songs, and performed drama. While living  in Martinique she even wrote  for local periodicals. At seventeen she directed and acted in La messagere (1974) which was a short play for televison. She went on to study  literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. While there, she simultaneously studied cinema at the Rue Lumiere School. Palcy approach in her creativity was to create films that  focus on black presence in the society. 

One of Euzhan Palcy most famous work is A Dry White Season (1989). This is a film about a young black school teacher, Ben du Toit, who have been insulted in his life by the horrors of the  apartheid  in South Africa. Ather the death of a gardner,  Ben du Toit  investigate the police and arouses his suspicions, he decides to probe into this matter and ensure that no one gets away with murder. He later get betrayed by his own people. 

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"FILM EXHIBITIONS." MoMA. Web. 02 May 2012. <http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1173>.


IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 02 May 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097243/plotsummary>


"Bio." Web. 02 May 2012. <http://www.euzhanpalcy.co/Bio.html>.


Introduction "Making Movie Magic" from Reel to Real by bell hooks