From 7-year-olds playing baseball,
learning the rules of the game, to 60-year-olds playing slo-pitch
softball, BASEBALL GIRLS explores the private and professional lives of
women obsessed with the sport they love. Using animation, archival
stills and live-action footage, this zany and affectionate feature documentary
details the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated
world of baseball and softball.
"Smart, strong and snappy, much like its subjects." Eye
Magazine
"Baseball
Girls is a winner" Toronto Star "Remember, Diamonds are a
girls' best friend" Toronto Sun "A zany, action -packed
documentary" The Gazette "A well-made, engaging
documentary about women, both past and present,
playing baseball." Hollywood reporter "Penetrating and
altogether entertaining.. focusing on women who live and
breathe the game of baseball." Take One
Baseball Girls on TV
Oxygen, the new women's TV network in the States,
purchased BASEBALL GIRLS
produced by The National Film Board of Canada and directed by Lois
Siegel.
The film aired on the network
2000-2002.
Oxygen is partially owned by Oprah
Winfrey.
The members of Celtic North are fortunate
to live in the Ottawa/Gatineau area
where “traditional” music is a wonderful mix of Irish, Scottish, and
French tunes.
In this, our first recording, we have collected some of our
favourite melodies,
with a couple of well-known songs thrown in for good measure.
Lois Siegel Fiddle, Spoons, Bodhran
Dan
Perkins Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Bodhran
Marie Deziel Accordion, Fiddle
Tunes include
Irish Washerwoman, Auprès de ma blonde, Scotland the Brave,
Loch Lomond, Morrison's, The Girl I Left Behind Me
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Award
Lois 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
earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York.
After a career in teaching at the Oregon School of the Blind, she
and her husband moved to Estacada, Ore. She committed herself to
writing and became editor of Human Voice Quarterly. A frequent
contributor to the St. Andrews Review, she was the earliest
benefactor of the St. Andrews Press. She believed that a full
community embraced and encouraged the craft of writing.
Lois was a guest speaker at
St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina
where she showed her films and spoke at the Writers' Forum.
St.
Andrews Presbyterian College is a four-year, church-related,
co-educational liberal arts and sciences institution, serving
traditional and non-traditional students from diverse national,
ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The College offers
residential and nonresidential undergraduate degree programs,
certification programs, and special training programs. One of the
first campuses designed to be accessible, St. Andrews takes
particular pride in its historical commitment to accommodating
students with physical disabilities.
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 Fiedler,
and Village Voice Poetry Editor Joel
Oppenheimer.
The Writers' Forum is a group that has met
every Thursday for 40 years.
"St. Andrews was
pleased to welcome to its campus
Lois Siegel, a veritable powerhouse
in all things creative. Recognized
internationally for her photography,
film-making, and music-making, Ms.
Siegel has been a tour de force on
campus, trekking from Women's
Studies classrooms to Advanced Video
Production meetings to the theatre
and beyond. Aside from making films,
playing music and taking
photographs, Siegel is a professor
at the University of Ottawa."
At the Forum
tonight, we were privileged to views
clips from several of her films on
topic ranging from the history of
women in baseball to a Canadian
family that made a name for itself
in film by staging and participating
in stunts to the plight of the
albinos. In light of being unable to
Podcast the actual Forum, please
check out the interview with Lois
Siegel instead--same bat time, same
bat channel!
To order a copy of her award-winning
documentary
Baseball Girls, you can contact
the Canadian National Film Board by
calling 1-800-542-2164.
Once again, Lois Siegel appeared
at the Writer's Forum.
She talked about her work as a freelance photographer and showed her
feature documentary film "Lip Gloss"
Directed by Lois Siegel
LIP GLOSS is a
documentary introducing a behind-the-scenes look at female
impersonators.
There's something for everyone: long legs, swivel hips, stuffed
girdles, and bouffant hairdos.
LIP GLOSS exposes the lives of transvestites, transsexuals, drag
queens and female impersonators.
Shop with them for lingerie and high heels, meet them backstage as
they transform from male to female, learn about their "extra
curricular" occupation and family life.
Lois Siegel works as a
freelance photographer for The Ottawa Citizen.
She covers diplomatic/embassy events, art shows, parties.....
Watch for her photos on Wednesday: "Diplomatica."
She also writes and photographs for Capital Style Magazine.
Her photographs are
displayed on the Saatchi Gallery, London, England, website. You can view her work here:
Gambling Boys, a documentary
produced by EyeSteelFilm,
delves in to the world of teen gambling, a world that offers excitement,
the potent allure of making big money, and as many are discovering,
the potential for serious addiction problems.
With the barrage of marketing
campaigns, television coverage of poker tournaments,
and easy access to online gaming, it is no surprise that teens are
increasingly affected.
Experts are finding that the rate of problem gamblers among young people
is two to four times higher than for adults.
Gambling Boys features three
youths ranging in age from 14 to 20 years old.
These teens share their
experiences with the thrill of gambling
and the tragic consequences when the betting gets out of control.
Gambling Boys, directed and
written by Laura Turek,
offers a poignant and lively picture of teens’ fascination with gambling
and the harsh consequences of getting hooked.
The film was produced by Sally Bochner and Tamara Lynch,
and executive producers Mila Aung Thwin and Daniel Cross.
And Lois
Siegel: Still Photography and Research
Produced by EyeSteelFilm in association with
CBC
Selected to Premiere at the Montreal World Film
Festival 2007
Family Motel
Siegel recently worked as Casting
Director for the alternative-drama “Family Motel,” a co-production
between Instinct Films, Montreal, and
The National Film Board of Canada. 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.
Award
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois:
Alex and Ruth Dworkin Prize for a Film
that Promotes Tolerance
Screening
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, March 2008
Family Motel is one of the most
important and affecting movies I've ever taken in.
It speaks for the millions of marginalized refugees in the West
with a degree of realism and authenticity I don't think I've ever
seen on film before.
Five stars for both content and cinematic art."
Alex Shoumatoff, contributing editor,
Vanity Fair
Ottawa filmmaker Lois Siegel appeared as a guest speaker
at
Douglas Anderson High School of the Arts, Jacksonville,
Florida.
For three days, she taught film animation (drawing on
film, flipbooks)
and spoke about filmmaking and photography.
Siegel was invited by Karen Sadler,
founder of
ArtLife Productions,
a company committed to generating arts events, programs and
initiatives
creating a new vision for the future of art in communities.
The
Grand Finale Celtic North Performed New
Year's Eve
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
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