GREENE – Monty and Marsha Brown will narrate their film, “La Belle France,” at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Rd.

Programs will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, March 26. Admission is free and doors will open one hour before the show.

Born in Doncaster, England, Monty was raised and educated in British Columbia, Canada. He studied theater at the University of British Columbia and, after touring with a repertory company in Canada for a year, returned to England to study acting at the Stratford East Theater School in London.

In London he worked first as an actor, then as a production assistant at BBC Television for five years. There he gained a basic knowledge of video and film-making. In the 1970s, Monty moved to New York to take up a career in song writing and musical performance.

He and his wife, Marsha, who was born and raised in upstate New York, have written many songs together, including two, “Cajun Christmas” and “Would You Fly?,” which were used in the movie “Steel Magnolias.”

The Browns spent more than a year working for the Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., where they produced the music and handled the publicity for the 1989 Folk Festival. While at NSU, Monty wrote a thesis on Louisiana musician Leadbelly and earned his master’s degree in English.

Back in Shreveport, Marsha organized the regional Film Commission, which attracts Hollywood to the Bayou country. She became the first executive director of the commission.

Monty was announcer and arts producer for Regional Public Radio in Shreveport, producing a weekly folk music program as well as many live concerts and radio articles on the arts. His show, “A Cajun Christmas,” has been aired all over the USA and on Country Music Radio in Europe.

In 2000 Monty and Marsha filmed the sights and sounds of their annual musical tour of France, from the chilly Normandie beaches to the sun-baked Mediterranean shore. The film, “La Belle France,” debuted on the travel film circuit in 2002. Their second film, “It’s Great! Britain,” was completed in 2004.

Monty and Marsha live in Louisiana and perform music regularly in schools, libraries and clubs. They are working on a film/performance piece about their home state.

For more information, call 946-5311 or http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.