Pitre, Glen A. (1955- ). Collection, 1981-1986, n.d.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of extras’ contracts, director’s notes, script drafts, photographs, and promotional material all pertaining to Glen Pitre’s movie "Belizaire the Cajun". It includes numerous drafts of the script, including a portion of a draft in French, and handwritten pieces of drafts. The film used mostly local Acadiana talent for work as extras. There are also director’s notes on camera angles, as well as hand drawn set maps. Media coverage of Glen Pitre and "Belizaire the Cajun" and photographs from the movie are also included.
Glen Pitre donated this collection. The 35 mm film reels were originally donated to the University Media Center. Later, Center Director Jean T. Kreamer transferred the reels to the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection.
Dates
- 1981-1986, n.d.
Creator
Biographical / Historical
Glen Anthony Pitre is a motion picture screenwriter and director from Cut Off, LA. He 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 film "Belizaire the Cajun" became his first English-language production. Since then Pitre’s works in a variety of media, frequently in collaboration with his 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.”
Extent
1.208333 Linear Feet (1 foot and 2.5 inches of materials contained in 2 boxes and an oversize map case)
3 Reels (3 reels of 35mm film)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Glen A. Pitre Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zack Stein
- Date
- 07/24/2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu