Glen Pitre

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:51:55 +0000

Born at Cut Off, Louisiana, Glen Pitre worked his way through Harvard by fishing shrimp each summer. By age 25, American Film magazine dubbed him “father of the Cajun cinema” as his low-budget, French dialect “gumbo westerns” broke house records in bayou country theaters. With the help of the Sundance Institute, his internationally-lauded 1986 Belizaire the Cajun became his first English-language production. Since then Pitre’s works in a variety of media, frequently in collaboration with wife Michelle Benoit, often about life in his native Louisiana wetlands, have earned him numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate and a knighthood from France. In a 2006 book, America’s most famous film critic, Roger Ebert, acclaimed Pitre “a legendary American regional director.”

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Michelle Benoit

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:44:19 +0000

A Scots-Irish-Cajun from the southwestern Louisiana prairies, Michelle has received degrees from the American University in Paris, France and the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has written, produced and directed films, documentaries, books, articles, museum exhibits and videos often in conjunction with her writing partner and husband Glen Pitre. Most recently she was Artist-In-Residence at the University of New Orleans, teaching screenwriting and film directing in the MFA Film Program.

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Glen Pitre

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