The film won Special Jury Prize at
the
Chicago International Film Festival in 1987 and
was nominated for 4
Genie Awards in 1988. It also won the Best Actor
(Jason St. Amour) award at the
Paris Film Festival in 1989.
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Siegel was a guest speaker at
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, where
she showed her films and spoke at the Writer’s Forum. Siegel was
presented with the twenty-fourth Annual Ethel N. Fortner Writer and
Community Award by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College September 24,
2009. The Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards were
institute in 1986 to Honor a Friend of Writers and Frequent
Contributor to the St. Andrews Review.
She was invited by Her Excellency
Michaëlle
Jean, Governor General of Canada, to participate in her
“Art Matters” initiative
on the Arts and Society at Rideau Hall, 2006. Ottawa Chinatown Royal Arch
Ottawa Chamber Music Festival
July 24, - August 7, 2010
She worked as researcher, location scout, and stills photographer on “Gambling Boys,” a film for CBC's “The Passionate Eye” about teens and Internet gambling.
Gambling Boys, a documentary
produced by EyeSteelFilm,
With the barrage of marketing
campaigns, television coverage of poker tournaments,
Gambling Boys features three
youths ranging in age from 14 to 20 years old.
These teens share their
experiences with the thrill of gambling
Gambling Boys, directed and
written by Laura Turek,
___________________ Her band Celtic North performed New Year's Eve 2007 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Grand Hall, Gatineau, Quebec for the 150th Anniversary of the City of Ottawa being named the Capital by Queen Victoria: The Grand Finale, and at SuperEx 2008.
Siegel's film STUNT PEOPLE (featuring four generations of the Fournier family) won a 1990 Genie Award: Best Short Documentary from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
Photo by
Ron
Levine She was one of the judges for the 2007 Excel Awards International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), recognizing the most creative and innovative communications professionals in the National Capital Region.
She was Casting Director for the docu-drama “Family Motel,” a co-production between Instinct Films, Montreal, and The National Film Board of Canada, 2006. The film is a sympathetic look at what happens to families when, in spite of all their efforts, the rent is too high, and their salaries are too low. It premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival, August 2007. Awards: Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois; Alex and Ruth Dworkin Prize for a Film that Promotes Tolerance; Screening: Museum of Modern Art, NYC, March 2008.
Siegel worked as a photographer on the set for Don Winkler’s documentary film “Les Violons du Roy: Ode to a Requiem” (Mozart) in Montreal, that premiered recently on CBC’s “Opening Night” series, 2007 and was nominated for two Gemini Awards: Best Performing Arts Program or Arts Documentary and Best Direction in the same category, for achievement in English-language television production. The film was recently nominated for two Gémeaux awards for excellent in French-language television production.
Her photographs are
displayed on the Saatchi Gallery,
London, England, website.
She is listed in "Who's Who in Canadian Film and Television" and is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Siegel appeared in 2006 as a guest speaker (film) at Douglas Anderson High School of the Arts, Jacksonville, Florida. Douglas Anderson is an award-winning institution on Florida’s North Atlantic coast. She was chosen as one of nine photographers to shoot The Rolling Stones concert in Ottawa 2005.
The Rolling Stones Siegel won 1st Prize “Photography” at the 23rd Annual ArtEast Art & Photo Exhibition, Orleans, Ontario (2004) for her portrait of “The Crowd” trumpeter Adam Bell.
In previous years she won 2nd place, (1999) for her portrait of Irish Actor Stephen Rea
and 3rd
place (2002) for her portrait of Italian Actress Sophia Loren. Her photography appeared in Mayworks: Ottawa’s first Visual Artists Directory, and her film set photos appeared in “On Screen: In Praise of Older Women” (Bravo Television) directed by Tristan Orchard. She teaches Video Production at the University of Ottawa. She is also teaching "Calling the Shots" video and animation workshops in the Ottawa public schools in conjunction with Salamander Theatre and MASC.Siegel taught Film Production at Concordia University and English, Film Animation, Modern Cinema and Documentary Film at John Abbott College, Montreal. She also taught Documentary Film at the Canadian Screen Training Centre, Ottawa, and various Film Animation and Documentary Film Workshops, Ottawa. She also taught "Musical Instruments and Creativity" at Heritage College, Hull, Quebec and a Documentary Film Workshop at IFCO, Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa. She was a mentor at Carleton University, Department of the Humanities: Photography. Three of her former students work in Hollywood. Steve Campanelli was camera and steadicam operator on the Oscar-winning film “Million Dollar Baby” (Clint Eastwood), Glen MacPherson was cinematographer on “Exit Wounds” and "16 Blocks," " Rambo" and "Final Destination 4," Steve Surjik directed Wayne’s World 2. As well, Barry Julian, comedian/writer for The Colbert Report, was on the writing team that won an Emmy Award 2008: "Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
She worked
with
Public
Pictures, Toronto as
Special
Consultant on
"Remembering Arthur,"
a documentary about filmmaker
Arthur Lipsett.
"Remembering Arthur,"
was chosen for the CANADIAN FRONT: NEW FILMS at
the Museum of Modern Art , New York City, March 2007, and it was selected as Oxygen, the women's TV network in the States, aired Siegel's documentary film BASEBALL GIRLS on the network 2000 - 2002. Oxygen is partially owned by Oprah Winfrey.
"Baseball Girls" is now available online - National Film Board of Canada Baseball Girls
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Siegel was educated in the United States: Bachelor of Science Journalism with Honors in English and Masters of Arts in English and Comparative Literature, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. As a student she was included in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and won several William Randolph Hearst and College Newspaper Association Awards. Her films have been presented at the First and Second International Festival of Women's Films, N.Y.; The Whitney Museum: New American Filmmakers Series, N.Y. |
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Siegel's other documentary
films include LIP
GLOSS (female impersonators),
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LOIS SIEGEL was Casting Director of
TOMMY TRICKER AND THE STAMP TRAVELLER
Rufus Wainwright sings I'm Runnin at 12
She worked on the casting of Cynthia Scott's THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS, HOCKEY DREAMS (Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto), and classical music videos for Rhombus Media, Inc., Toronto: PROKOFIEV BY TWO (3 Gemini Awards 1991-1992), FALLA, and BOLERO featuring The Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Siegel cast the Sri Lankans in The National Film Board's "Welcome to Canada," directed by John N. Smith.
She received the Guide-Scout Volunteer for Youth Award (Industry/Business Category) in Quebec, 1994, and she was nominated twice for the Quebec YWCA Women of Distinction Awards, 1995, 1996. Eighty-two of her photographs (film directors, actors) were displayed in Complexe Desjardins during the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal World Film Festival, 1996, and 120 of her photos were displayed at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002. Siegel is currently a Mentor for the Department of the Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa. She was a member of the City of Ottawa Arts Advisory Committee, the Media Arts Advisory Sub-Committee and Saw Video's Digital Media Committee. Siegel was on the Advisory Board of IFCO: The Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa. She was a jury member on the 1999 Cultural Assistance Programme: Arts and Heritage Division, Film and Video, City of Ottawa, as well as as on the 2003 Office of Cultural Affairs Local Arts Funding Program jury, City of Ottawa. She has also written and photographed for FPS (Frames Per Second): The Magazine of Animation. Her articles appear on "Film Fanatics," an Internet web page she has created.
She is the Official Photographer for
The Canadian Grand Masters
Fiddling Championship, Ottawa.
She is a writer/photographer
for The Glebe Report, and her work appears in various other
community newspapers in Ottawa.
Siegel
is a member of ArtEast and
a member/photographer
of Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and she
is
the Official Photographer for the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling
Championship and a photographer for WaterCan Embassy Dinner. She
also photographs for the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
and the Ottawa Valley
Country Music Hall Of Fame
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