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"Performing On Camera" Workshop

FREE WORKSHOP FOR ALL THEATRE & DANCE Students

Feature and Documentary Filmmakers Glen Pitre & Michelle Benoit will be visiting MSU as part of the Public Affairs Conference. They will also be offering the following workshop and screening:

Performing on Camera
Wednesday April 22nd, 11am-1pm, Craig Hall, Balcony Theatre
This session will provide students the opportunity to engage in a mock audition with feature and documentary filmmakers Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit, and to gain important insights about the logistics of film performance and the "on camera" industry. Substantial time will be provided for inquiries and discussion. Audition participants will be pre-selected. All university students are invited to view auditions and participate in discussion.*

Screening and Discussion: American Creole: A New Orleans Reunion
Wednesday April 22nd, 3:00-5:00pm, Plaster Student Union Theatre
American Creole "follows musician Don Vappie after Katrina and asks if culture emerges from landscape, what happens when the landscape is forever changed." Screening will be followed by a question/answer session. This Session is open to all university students.*

*These events are made possible through collaboration from COAL, Theatre & Dance, Media Journalism & Film, and through support from the futures grant Green Theatre: Vanishing Wetlands, Vanishing Cultures.

Artist Biographies:

Husband and wife filmmaking team Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit have garnered recognition worldwide for their features and documentaries. Whether in film or video, their production company, Côte Blanche, specializes in bringing the stories and history of southern Louisiana to audiences. Pitre and Benoit have created award winning films featuring the talents of Robert Duvall, Armand Assante, Tim Curry, George Kennedy, Billy Zane, Julian Sands, Lacey Chabert, and Tatum O'Neal, among others. Their most recent feature collaborations include The Man Who Came Back, about the first labor strike post Civil War, and The Scoundrel's Wife (released as The Home Front), a feature about WWII on the bayou home front. They recently completed the fourth in a series of documentaries about coastal wetlands loss for the National Estuary Program. Called Harvest to Restore America's Coastal Heartland, it details the impact of this natural and man-made disaster on the U.S. and what can be done to reverse it. American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, a documentary about post-Katrina New Orleans aired on PBS in 2006. In 2003, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert acclaimed Pitre "a legendary American regional director." Benoit most recently served as Artist-in-Residence at the University of New Orleans.

 

ID 188 • 4/7/2009



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