Deanna Kamiel
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Deanna Kamiel (July 6, 1946 – June 14, 2018) was a Canadian-born director, documentary film/public TV[1] writer/producer [2] with a career in public broadcasting at the CBC in Toronto and PBS in Minneapolis [3][4] and professor of film development at SUNY Purchase College and then at The New School, Manhattan, New York City, US.[5] She worked for 26 years (1992–2018) as Head of The New School's Documentary Studies program, Director of Graduate Certificate in Doc Studies Program, and Assistant Professor of Media Studies - School of Media Studies, Manhattan, New York, U.S.[6][7][8] Kamiel's documentaries were based on live interviews of the person(s) the film was about.[9][10] As a student at The University of Toronto in the 1960s, she wrote for The Varsity in Toronto,[11] and The Ubyssey in Vancouver.[12]
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984, Creative Arts, video and audio[13]
- Museum of Modern Art [14]
- Northwest Broadcast News Association (regional Emmy), 1983 [14]
- National Association of Working Women, Best Profile, 1983
- National Film Board of Canada [14]
- International Public Television Festival (INPUT): 1986, 1985, 1984 [14]
- Tokyo Video Festival, First Prize, Nuclear Outpost, 1985 [14]
- Chicago International Film Festival, Cinematography, Nuclear Outpost, 1985 [14]
- The Humanitarian Award at the Long Island International Film Expo, June 30, 2014
- Emmy (New York), City Arts, WNET, 1999
Grants
- Ontario Arts Council Grant, 1979[15]
- Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2005 [15]
- Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2010 [15]
- Provost Faculty Research Fund Grant, The New School, Office of the Provost, 2013-14 [15]
Books
The Lace Ghetto[16]
Filmography
- Visions of Cinema[17] (Interviews with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jonathan Demme, and Jean Luc Godard)[18]
- Visions of Home [18]
- Jean-Luc Godard[19][20]
- Boys with bats: an American romance[21]
- Milgrom's Obsession[22]
- Maggie and the Men of Minnesota, 1972[23][24]
- Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary[25][26]
- Ruth [24]
- Adoption [24]
- Nuclear Outpost [27][28]
- Mickey's Diner[29]
- Nuclear Outpost[30][31][32]
- Nighttime at the Diner [32]
- Lessons from an American Primary[33]
Articles
- "I believe my eyes: The transformative theatre of Hanif Kureishi",[34][31][35]