LOIS SIEGEL has been a filmmaker, casting director, writer, photographer, professor and musician. Siegel was named one of the Capital City's Top 50: People who are shaping the future of the National Capital, by Ottawa Life Magazine, 2002.
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. She worked as a writer, editor and photographer for the Ohio University Post, a daily publication, and was co-editor of the Bromley Hall newspaper, the first co-ed dormitory in the United States, built by the Tishman Company, NYCSiegel worked as a ‘writer’ on the CBC "Life and Times" - “Portrait of Christopher Plummer, A Man of All Stages,” produced by GAPC Entertainment, Ottawa, 2002. John Abbott College inducted nine new members to its Hall of Distinction, including Lois Siegel (award-winning filmmaker who taught English and Film).Siegel was a guest speaker at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, where she showed her films and spoke at the Writers’ 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 instituted in 1986 to Honor a Friend of Writers and Frequent Contributor to the St. Andrews Review." Fortner Writers’ Forum has met every Thursday for 40 years. Past presenters at the forum include such distinguished guests as designer Buckminster Fuller, journalist Tom Wolfe, musician John Cage, poets Robert Creeley, Robert Bly and James Dickey, novelist John Barth, literary critic Leslie Fielders, and Village Voice poetry editor Joel Oppenheimer.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. The award is now called a Canadian Screen Award.Her film BASEBALL GIRLS (women who play softball and baseball), a documentary feature produced by The National Film Board of Canada, won the “Targa Citta’ Di Palermo” at the International Sports Film Festival in Palermo, Italy. BASEBALL GIRLS also won an award for “Film Documentary” at the 1996 Athens (Ohio) International Film and Video Festival and a Bronze Apple Award from The National Education Media Network, 1998. 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. It played at the Athlete’s Village in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. BASEBALL GIRLS has also appeared on PBS stations in the States, as well as on the Women’s Television Network and TV New Brunswick in Canada. It was selected as “one of the best documentaries in Canadian cinema” for 1996 by Take One film magazine: Toronto Film Critics’ Poll.Siegel worked as entertainment director, photographer, writer and video director for Projections Multimedia Inc. during the 17th World Congress of the Transplantation Society (Montreal). In 2000, she completed a 56-minute corporate video: "A Half-Century Retrospective of Transplantation."LOIS SIEGEL has been a filmmaker, casting director, writer, photographer, professor and musician. Siegel was named one of the Capital City's Top 50: People who are shaping the future of the National Capital, by Ottawa Life Magazine, 2002.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. She worked as a writer, editor and photographer for the Ohio University Post, a daily publication, and was co-editor of the Bromley Hall newspaper, the first co-ed dormitory in the United States, built by the Tishman Company, NYC
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. She worked as a writer, editor and photographer for the Ohio University Post, a daily publication, and was co-editor of the Bromley Hall newspaper, the first co-ed dormitory in the United States, built by the Tishman Company, NYC.
Siegel worked as a ‘writer’ on the CBC "Life and Times" - “Portrait of Christopher Plummer, A Man of All Stages,” produced by GAPC Entertainment, Ottawa, 2002. John Abbott College inducted nine new members to its Hall of Distinction, including Lois Siegel (award-winning filmmaker who taught English and Film).
Siegel was a guest speaker at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, where she showed her films and spoke at the Writers’ 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 instituted in 1986 to Honor a Friend of Writers and Frequent Contributor to the St. Andrews Review." Fortner Writers’ Forum has met every Thursday for 40 years. Past presenters at the forum include such distinguished guests as designer Buckminster Fuller, journalist Tom Wolfe, musician John Cage, poets Robert Creeley, Robert Bly and James Dickey, novelist John Barth, literary critic Leslie Fielders, and Village Voice poetry editor Joel Oppenheimer.
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. The award is now called a Canadian Screen Award.
Her film BASEBALL GIRLS (women who play softball and baseball), a documentary feature produced by The National Film Board of Canada, won the “Targa Citta’ Di Palermo” at the International Sports Film Festival in Palermo, Italy. BASEBALL GIRLS also won an award for “Film Documentary” at the 1996 Athens (Ohio) International Film and Video Festival and a Bronze Apple Award from The National Education Media Network, 1998. 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. It played at the Athlete’s Village in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. BASEBALL GIRLS has also appeared on PBS stations in the States, as well as on the Women’s Television Network and TV New Brunswick in Canada. It was selected as “one of the best documentaries in Canadian cinema” for 1996 by Take One film magazine: Toronto Film Critics’ Poll.
Siegel worked as entertainment director, photographer, writer and video director for Projections Multimedia Inc. during the 17th World Congress of the Transplantation Society (Montreal). In 2000, she completed a 56-minute corporate video: "A Half-Century Retrospective of Transplantation."