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| GLEN PITRE |
Lifelong Louisiana resident Glen
Pitre has directed such diverse Academy Award-winners as Robert
Duval, Louise Fletcher, Tatum O'Neal, and George Kennedy. Pitre's
most recent featureas writer/director, The Man Who Came Back, stars
Eric Braeden, Billy Zane, Armand Assante,Carol Alt, Sean Young,
and Ken Norton.
Additionally, Pitre's work as screenwriter for hire spans drama,
comedy, horror, and action-adventure, including five scripts for
the late media giant Brandon Tartikoff. In November 2005,Pitre joined
the august company of Robert Towne, David Mamet, and others by having
his face grace the cover of Written By, the official magazine of
the WGA.
Among Pitre's numerous documentaries, American Creole premiered
November, 2006, on PBS. Hurricane on the Bayou, an insider's look
at Katrina which Pitre wrote and co-directed for IMAX legend Greg
MacGillivray, is now in worldwide theatrical release.
Pitre has also worked extensively as producer, and occasionally
as A.D.
Born at Cut Off, Louisiana, 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.
His first English-language movie was the internationally-lauded
1986 Belizaire the Cajun, which was one of the first Sundance Institute
Filmmakers' Lab projects to actually get made.
Pitre's movies have earned him official selections at Cannes, Toronto,
etc.; numerous film festival prizes; an Independent Spirit Award
nomination; an honorary doctorate; and a knighthood from France.
In 2003, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert acclaimed Pitre
"a legendary American regional director."
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