BATON ROUGE – On Friday, March 15, two award-winning independent filmmakers will talk about their work and its roots in Louisiana folk culture. As part of its Distinguished Lecturer Series, the LSU Department of English will host “From Belizaire to Beasts: Louisiana Folklife and Filmmaking,” a conversation with Glen Pitre and Benh Zeitlin, from 7-9 p.m. in the Dalton J. Woods Auditorium, Room 1001, of LSU’s Energy, Coast, and Environment Building. The event is free and open to the public.

“We found these funny looking mounds,” said Harry Roberts, Boyd professor of marine geology and geophysics/sedimentology at LSU. “We had never seen mounds like this on the continental slope.”