#martique

[marejadilla]

Gabriel Mark Lipper, "Martique", ("Alla Prima" series) Oil on panel. Born in Portland and lives in Ashland, Oregon.

[thestalkerbunny]

what about a duskull

Mortique, an undead French teen. He was killed in a drive by shooting when he was heading to meet a date. Now he’s sorta just stuck in this eternal limbo; working as a book shelver at a Kalosian Antique Library.He never bothered to clean his hoodie after he died. Too Lazy.

[thebumrush]

Euzhan palcy

Euzhan Palcy is a film director writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. Notable for being the first black female director produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM) for "A Dry White Season" the only female filmmaker who directed Marlon Brando (she brought him back to the screen).

Born in Martinique, Euzhan Palcy  up studying the films of Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Orson Welles. She left for Paris in 1975 to earn a master's degree in French Literature, in theater at the Sorbonne, a D.E.A. in Art and Archeology and a film degree (specializing in cinematography) from renowned Louis Lumière College.

It was in Paris, with the encouragement of her "French Godfather", François Truffaut, that she was able to put together her first feature, Sugar Cane Alley(rue case nègre) (1983). Shot for less than $1,000,000, it documents through the eyes of a young boy the love and sacrifice of a poor black family living on a Martinique sugar cane plantation in the 1930s. Sugar Cane Alley won over 17 international awards including the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion, as well as the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup) for Best Lead Actress Award (Darling Legitimus). It also won the prestigious César Award (the French equivalent to Academy Award) for best first feature film.