With the ‘Dry White Season’ director set to receive an honorary Oscar at the Nov. 19 Governors Awards, the filmmaking icon reflects on the triumphs and roadblocks she met along the way.
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To be sure, Palcy has long had her champions in Hollywood — she refers to Robert Redford, who mentored her at Sundance, as her “godfather.” And offers did come her way after the apartheid drama, including a film about George Jackson, the Black Panther activist shot and killed during an escape attempt at San Quentin in 1971 — igniting the Attica Prison uprising.
Frustrated with the studio system, Palcy chose instead to advise aspiring filmmakers “in Africa, in Haiti, in the Caribbean, even here in the U.S.” She delights in the strides being made by young BIPOC filmmakers.
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