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©Photo by Paul Jean
Valentine's Day 2010

Orpheus Musical Theatre Society

There’s nothing better than live musical theatre when it’s done well. “Matilda”, by Roald Dahl, played at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe Ben Franklin Place - 101 Centrepointe Drive, 2019

The performance was filled with charming kids and talented adults. There are two Matildas performing: Sophia Pierce and Shelby Shannon-Caines. I saw Sophia Pierce on November 23. She was outstanding.

Shelby Shannon & Sophia Pierce

The cast is terrific. Sophia Pierce has a wonderful voice. You can hear her singing here… not in the show but for the Ottawa Senators Kids Opening Night.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=501620527060339
She’s very young and very talented.

The production was fun because there were groups of performers who are dancers and singers, and the choreography is excellent and well-coordinated with the music. The pit orchestra hits every cue and really adds to the performance.
There are bongos and horns and even a drum roll. “Imagine a world with no children” - Trumpets ….

There’s a large Mrs. Wormwood (Hilary Peck), and A Doctor Escapologist (Paul Melsness) who has cool sunglasses. Mr. Wormwood (Graeme Park), a car salesman, wears a multi-colored suit and green hair.

He always calls his daughter ‘boy.’ She says, “But I’m a girl.” He says, “I don’t suppose we can change it for a Boy,” Matilda loves to read. Her father hates this. He prefers his son Michael (Emmet Logue) who only watches TV. It's interesting to watch the smooth set changes. And there’s an inventive, toilet paper scene.

Outstanding in the cast was Miss Agatha Trunchbull (Jason Swan) – yes – he’s a guy.

Trunchbull is the Head Mistress of the school. She’s an over the top wonderful character. “Children are Maggots,” she professes. “If you want to succeed, stay inside the circle
Toe the line.”

Miss Jenny Honey (Melinda Hudson) was the schoolteacher who has to deal with
Trunchbull. Rudolpho/Party Entertainer (Jesse Gervais-Weedmark, had some great moves. And there was a very good solo by a young boy at the end of a classroom scene.

Act 2 - opening scene - “All I learned, I learned from Tele,” was well done as well as “When I Grow Up” – a company dance scene with one kid even doing a split.

The Director of “Matilda” is Jenn Donnelly, Music Director Sophie Rochat, Choreographer Alex Sinha.

“In his lifetime, Roald Dahl, British storyteller, pushed children’s literature into uncharted territory.” He was known for his dark humor and for evil adult enemies of children. Alfred Hitchcock featured some of his stories.

Review by Lois Siegel
Photos by Alan Dean Photography

Stars
Photography by Lois Siegel

Hugh Grant
British Actor, 1987 Sophia Loren
Italian Actress, 2001

HERITAGE MINUTES
Wilder Penfield

A Montréal neurosurgeon makes groundbreaking advances
in the treatment of seizure disorders (1934)

Casting Director
Lois Siegel

CAST

Penfield – Frank Fontaine
Additional Cast – Barry Blake
Additional Cast – John Evans
Additional Cast – Susan Glover
Additional Cast – Frank Schorpion

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

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Lois was on the President’s Advisory Network
of Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa

In honour of the NFB’s 80th anniversary, our collection curators
have carefully hand-picked a selection of films
that represent our contribution to the canon of Canadian culture.

Throughout our history, artists and filmmakers
have passed through our doors to share their expertise
and hone their craft. The result? A rich collection of works
depicting the stories that matter to Canadians
spanning close to a century.

Baseball Girls

Directed by Lois Siegel

1995 | 1 h 20 min

St. Andrews Review

Digital & Print Chapbooks

Six Stories, by Lois Siegel, is the 14th issue
in a special series of digital and print chapbooks
to honor the poets and writers who have published in the
St. Andrews Review or through
the St. Andrews University Press since 1969.

St. Andrews University
(A Branch of Webber International University)
Laurinburg, North Carolina
2016

Now available

Amazon.com

Amazon.ca

Quiet Revolution Pictures

His Master's Voice

Lois Siegel, Set Photographer

Status
Magazine

Article about Lois Siegel
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©Photo by Lois Siegel
Lighting by Frederic Dekkal

Byblos

Erin Chapman, Model
Azadeh, Makeup
Sam, Hair
Joseph Saikaley, Art Director

Lois Siegel has been recognized as
Notable Alumni by Ohio University, USA
under the category Arts and Entertainment

Work is widely recognizable by broad audience
or has achieved national/international distinction.
Lois Siegel, BSJ MA , filmmaker, casting director, writer, photographer,
professor, and musician; 1990 Genie Award recipient for
Best Short Documentary
(Film: Stunt People), Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television

Photo by Bill Pugsley

Laurence Wall, CBC Senior Producer
Lois Siegel, Joan Forbes

Special Recognition Citation
Photographer
Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra
2015

Photo by Lois Siegel

World Arts Film Festival
Jacksonville, Florida
October 2015

Photo by Lois Siegel, April 2015

Canadian politician and Order of Canada recipient
Flora MacDonald
Died July 26, 2015
89-years-old.

Photo by Fred Dekkal

Museum of History
Grand Hall
Michaëlle Jean
Governor General of Canada 2005-2010

CFUW
Canadian Federation of University Women
Dragonauts

Photo by Paul Jean
Front Row - Carole Hinde, Patricia O'Flaherty, Sue Roseman,
Jean Chapman, Sue Holloway (Instructor), Lois Siegel
Middle Row - Ann Flynn, Margaret MacKay, Adell Hay, Janice Friso,
Freda Godby, Fran Harding, Leila Metcalf, Margaret Bott, Marie Riopelle
Back Row - Muriel Scott-Smith, Britta Jarvis, Kringen Henein
Mary Partington, Carol Bell Thompson, Mary Wilkinson, Linda Douglas
Not Pictured: Beth Doubt, Laureen Silke, Sheila Pepper

One of the Top 16 Fundraising Teams
out of 185 to be Invited to Race in the
Friday Night Carmello's Charity Challenge Cup
Mooney's Bay

Photos

2013

Photo by Errol McGihon, Ottawa Sun
Margaret MacKay, Muriel Scott-Smith, Lois Siegel, Patricia O'Flaherty

Photo by Paul Jean
Front Row: Lois Siegel, Angela Rodzinyak, Adell Hay, Janice Friso, Ann Flynn,
Carol Bell Thompson, Kringen Henein, Wanda Nowosielski, Fran Harding

2014
One of the Top 16 Fundraising Teams
Invited to Race in the Friday Night
Challenge Cup
Mooney's Bay

Photo by Paul Jean

2015
Front row (Kneeling): Lois Siegel, Jennifer Hasson, Liz Weber,
Wanda Nowosielski,
Laureen Silke, Ann Flynn, Kringen Henein
Back row (Standing): Sue Roseman, Doreen Dyck, Gail Christison,
Adell Hay,
Kathy Greiner, Leila Metcalf, Beth Doubt, Jennifer Rose, Esther Earle,
Patricia O'Flaherty, Sheila Pepper, Liza Zaslavsky,
IIza Morawiecka, Jennifer Rae

©Photo by Paul Jean
Terry Mosher (Aislin) Lois Siegel, Bill Lee
Clocktower Brew Pub
July 12, 2014
Ottawa

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Diana (Bill Lee’s wife), Cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin),
Dave Gourlay - President of the Ottawa Champions & President of the Miracle League of Ottawa The Miracle League
Spaceman Bill Lee (Former Pitcher Montreal Expos),
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson
The Miracle League of Ottawa Fundraiser
Clocktower Brew Pub
July 2014
Ottawa

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Johnny Winter
Rolling Stone
1944-2014

Lois worked with elementary school children in Jacksonville, Florida
February 2014

This was part of the Grasp program. Four schools participated – four classes
of kids who are dyslexic. They created Public Service Announcements
and from their ideas, Lois created scripts for them.
All the students were the actors. The cameraman was from
Baltimore, Maryland and the acting coaches were from St. Augustine, Florida.
There was also a production assistant from Jacksonville.

This project was in conjunction with the World Arts Film Festival.
The Grasp project culminated at the World Arts Film Festival May 15-17,2014
when all four schools (110 students) met each other
for the first time, showed their films, and shared their experiences.

Filmmaker Lois Siegel with a student at the World Arts Education Student Film Workshop
in Jacksonville, Florida.

The project was featured at the World Arts Film Festival, May 2014.

Lois also led drawing-on-film workshops at the festival,
working with groups of school kids from all over the city.

World Arts Film Festival presented by non-profit World Arts Education,
highlights the creativity of established to first-time directors
of all ages and abilities, inviting them to
meet and mentor each other and their audiences through this new venue.
3 Days, Over 100 Short Films, Director's Panels, Film Industry Workshops,
Parties and Awards! in Jacksonville, Florida.

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Freddy Dixon
The Ottawa Valley Country Music
Hall Of Fame Awards Show
September
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Sens Unique

Canada Day
Petrie Island, Orleans
July 1, 2013

French Canadian Tunes

Photos

Photo by Paul Jean
Michel-Andre Vallieres, Chantale Gaudet-Rice
Lois Siegel with Mop-Top Jane, Ugly Stick

Children's Percussion Workshop

2013

Rideau Rural Roots Festival
Smith Falls, Ontario

Photo by Victor Turco

Jean-Daniel Lafond, Husband of Michaëlle Jean
Lois Siegel, Photographer
Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada 2005-2010
Christmas, 2011

Photo by Corporal Isabel Paré

Front Row: Lois Siegel, Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Jacques Bensimon
Jacques Languirand,
Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean and Mr. Jean-Daniel Lafond
Sylvie Lalande, Mark Starowicz, Phillip Rista Nimmons, Dr. André H. Caron

Middle Row: Gregor Ash, Maria Yongmee Shin, Hervé Fisher, Sara Diamond
Narendra Pachkhede,
Hanno Lemke, Nicholas Bencherki, Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Michael Griffin, Ana Serrano

Back Row: Tom Perlmutter, Philippe Baylaucq, Daniel Cross, Yves Bisaillon
Nicole Dumais, Harold Redekopp, Cameron Bailey, Alex "Gadget" Berthelot
Letizia Caronia, Patricia Bergeron, Raja Khanna, Sébastien Barangé

Rideau Hall 2006
Art Matters

	Lois Siegel is a freelance film director, writer, and photographer. She also plays Bodhran and spoons with The Lyon Street Celtic Band, and Sens Unique
	She taught Video Production at the University of Ottawa for 18 years University of Ottawa Department of Communication Video Production Watch Videos
	Siegel's film STUNT PEOPLE (featuring the Fournier family) won a 1990 Genie Award: Best Short Documentary from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

©Photo by Paul Jean
Tie and Scarf by Rosemary Hayes
Vest by May Walton
Robbie Burns Day 2013

James Baxter, Hugh Winsor, Philip Gibson, Lois Siegel,
and Past President Sheila Copps
were elected to
the National Press Club of Canada Foundation Executive Board

Lois was formerly on the Executive Board of the
Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Association

Siegel was one of nine photographers chosen to shoot
The Rolling Stones concert
2005

Photo of Lois by Bill Blackstone
Event
©Photos by Lois Siegel

Official Photographer Canadian Association of Journalists
Awards Gala, 2012
&
Bon Appetit
2013-2016

The Ottawa International Animation Festival

Annual Picnic

Pumpkin Carving Competition

Photo by Lois Siegel
Bob Rae

Travers Debates
2012
2014
2016

Dave's Drum Shop

Drum Clinic
Ottawa

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Virgil Donati
May 2013

Award-Winning Children’s Television

Lois Siegel acted in an episode of "The Prime Radicals,"
a children’s educational television series on TVOntario.
Lois played a movie director opposite 19-year-old Alanna Bale
who plays Alanna in the production. The Prime Radicals demonstrates
how math can be applied in everyday contexts. It features two cousins,
Alanna and Kevin, who help their Uncle Norm solve his weekly
workshop problems with the help of an expert and
a mathematical solution. This new live-action series for
kids aged 6-8 is compelling and entertaining – never didactic –
and uses humorous, hands-on, real-world scenarios to make
numbers cool for kids, based on the math curriculum for young learners.
Filming took place at GAPC Entertainment in Ottawa. http://www.gapcentertainment.com/
Lois appears in Episode #13, 2013

2013

Lois Siegel
World Arts Film Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art
Drawing on Film Workshops
Jacksonville, Florida

Lois attended the World Arts Film Fest in Jacksonville, Florida April 2013.
She led animation workshops with students from Douglas Anderson High School
of the Arts, Montessori, and various groups of autistic children.
She also participated in a panel of women filmmakers.

2014

Lois returned to Jacksonville, February 2014 to work with the Grasp program.
Four schools participated - four classes of kids who are dyslexic.
They created Public Service Announcements and from their ideas,
Lois created film scripts. All the students were the actors.
The cameraman was from Baltimore, Maryland and the acting coaches
were from St. Augustine, Florida. There was also a production assistant
from Jacksonville. This project was in conjunction with the
World Arts Film Festival. The Grasp project culminates at the
World Arts Film Festival 2014 when all four schools
(110 students) meet each other for the first time,
sshow their films and share their experiences.

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Canadian companies representatives recognized by Lockheed Martinbr for their participation in the F-35 program. Left to right:
Peter Timeo, Dan Snyder, Michael Cybulski, Larry Glenesk, Tom Elias,
Claude Baril, Jean Gravel, Gabe Batstone, Steve O'Bryan (Lockheed Martin),
Kevin Russell, Mike Dorricott, Mark Van Rooij, Dave Mitchell, Doug Dubowski,
Randy Joe, Scott McCrady (CNW Group/Lockheed Martin).

Siegel was one of the judges for the
Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA), Annual Digital Competition,
2012, and for an R.A. Club Competition, 2013.

This off-beat movie is the satirical story of a once-famous painter
who rediscovers inspiration after he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal
named Eddie.

Photos by Lois Siegel

"Eddie" stars Thure Lindhart as Lars
(Angels & Demons, Into The Wild)

Eddie
Dylan Smith
(300, Love & Savagery)

Jordan Krakower
Victim

Transporting Body Parts
John McAlpine posing as the lead’s body double

National Premiere – Ottawa
Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
Empire Cinema, Rideau Centre
2012
Director, stars and producer in attendance

Lois Siegel, Unit Publicist and Set Photographer

Lois Siegel is the Official Photographer for
the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Louis Schryer
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2014

Canadian Grand Masters
Fiddling Association
Musical Entertainment and Auction Fundraiser
2014

25th Anniversary
Fiddle Gala
2014

Canadian Grand Masters
Fiddling Association
Musical Entertainment and Auction Fundraiser
2015

Photo by Jennifer McIntosh, Metroland

Lois Siegel, a local filmmaker and photographer,
is pictured talking with high school girls about her profession at a
Skills Canada Networking Dinner held at Algonquin College, 2012.

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Caricature by Dean Lewis
Location: Inner Harbour Causeway
Victoria, B.C.

©Photo by Mike Levin
2010

Baseball Girls
Directed by Lois Siegel

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Michele Granger
Pitcher

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.

Online
NFB site
and on
YouTube

To Purchase

Baseball Girls

List Price: $19.95

"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.

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Pelham Sportaculars
Fairfax, Virginia
National Capital Senior Softball Classic, Runner-Up, Women's Division
Representing Canada

ID NO.: 153C9195112
Duration:: 80 min 45 s

Produced by Silva Basmajian

Canadian residents can order directly from the NFB or call 1-800-267-7710.
In the U.S. call 1-800-542-2164.

The film is also available through the Ottawa Public Library, Canada.

"Baseball Girls" is now available online - National Film Board of Canada

A Blog Interview by Albert Ohayon

Lois Siegel's film "Stunt Family" Now Online
The National Film Board of Canada site

English
http://www.nfb.ca/film/canada_vignettes_stunt_family/

French
http://www.onf.ca/film/canada_vignettes_les_cascadeurs/

English Blog
http://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2012/09/13/stunt-family/

French Blog
http://blogue.onf.ca/2012/09/06/les-cascadeurs-une-histoire-de-casse-cou/

1978-ONF Vignettes - Les Cascadeurs
YouTube

Photo by Tatiana Slepukhin-Zamachnaia

Ottawa Chamberfest
2010

Festival Video
Photos by Bill Blackstone and Lois Siegel
Produced by Lois Siegel
Johann Sebastian Bach
James Ehnes, Violin

Celtic North

©Photo by Paul Jean

Marie Deziel: Accordion, Fiddle
Lois Siegel: Fiddle, Spoons, Bodhran
Dan Perkins: Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Bodhran

Announcing Celtic North's
First CD Release

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.

Tunes include
Irish Washerwoman, Auprès de ma blonde, Scotland the Brave,
Loch Lomond, Morrison's, The Girl I Left Behind Me
Hangman's Reel

Celtic North isn't their day job, but as their new CD shows,
they certainly have flair....
"Celtic North" is a very good first CD. It contains a variety of tunes,
mainly Irish and Scottish, with a few French pieces....
The playing is lively and catchy; the instrumentation creative.
Reuel S. Amdur
"Celtic Life" Magazine

Your CD is great--such lively "fun time" music.
Good recording, and you all sound fantastic.
Dayle Reynolds
Ottawa, Canada

Really like the CD... the arrangements are wonderful,
the blend of instruments is SO smooth,
and the interwoven melodies are beautiful.
Joe Berman, Athens, Ohio

"French influences add uniqueness to Celtic North's debut album"
Dan Plouffe
Orleans Star
Ottawa, Canada

Price: $15.00 + U.S. and Canada
Shipping and Handling $8 = $23.00

Contact:
Lois Siegel

lois@siegelproductions.ca

www.celticnorth.com

Celtic North
on
Rogers TV

March 2010

Le Cordon Bleu
Present in 15 countries with more than 27 schools
attended by more than 20,000 students annually

The schools employ 450 chefs, including 80 Master Chefs

©Photo by Lois Siegel, 2010
Lighting by Victor Turco
Beignets de Gambas

Lois Siegel photographed a series of food photos
for a textbook, "Cuisine Foundations,"
by Delmar Cengage Learning.

Classic Recipes

The Chefs of Le Cordon Bleu
Photos

©Photo by Lois Siegel
Lighting by Victor Turco

Photo Shoot Byblos Health & Wellness

©Photo by Victor Turco

The Ottawa Citizen
December 15, 2008
Dear CRTC, I don't want calls

CTV
Telemarketers finding ways through Do Not Call list

CTV National
A Loophole in the 'Do Not Call' Registry (download video)
January 23, 2009
Story: Do Not Call List

Global TV

"News Hour," January 13. 2009 (download video)
Story: Do Not Call List

"News Hour," January 14, 2009 (download video)
Story: Do Not Call List

Globe and Mail
January 23, 2009
Fraudsters Abusing Do-Not-Call List

Award

Lois was presented with The Twenty-Fourth Annual
Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Award
by St. Andrew's University
a branch of Webber International University
formerly St. Andrews 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. Andrew's University,
Laurinburg, North Carolina
where she showed her films and spoke at the Writers' Forum.

St. Andrew's University 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.

Lois Siegel

"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 former 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.

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.

Writer's Forum
Thursday, September 24, 2009

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 previously worked as a freelance photographer for
The Ottawa Citizen.
She covered diplomatic/embassy events, art shows, parties.....
She also wrote and photographed for Capital Style Magazine.
She currently writes film reviews for
The Glebe Report

Her photographs are displayed on the Saatchi Gallery,
London, England, website.
You can view her work here:

Saatchi Gallery
Wikipedia

Lois Siegel
Canadian Women's Open
Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club

Web Pages

Ottawa Rocks
Movers and Shakers

Photo Addicts

Photography by Lois Siegel

Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Lois Siegel

Photo by Lois Siegel
The Ottawa Business Journal

Photo by Lois Siegel
Metroland Media

The Glebe Report

The Kitchissippi Times

Photo by Lois Siegel

Candid and Art Photos

Photos by Lois Siegel

Les Violons du Roy
"Ode to a Requiem"
Film directed by Don Winkler, produced by Craig Graham
Premiere CBC "Opening Night" Series
April 2007

To inquire about licensing or purchasing prints of my photos,
or to commission services, please contact: lois@siegelproductions.ca

Copywriting

Dr. Hugues Boivin
Text

"Gambling Boys"

Documentary aired on The Passionate Eye
CBC News Network
March 7, 2010

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.

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

Trailer

Photos

TOMMY TRICKER AND THE STAMP TRAVELLER

Lois Siegel, Casting Director

Rufus Wainwright sings I'm Runnin (12)

Actors and Crew
Lois 2nd row, 2nd from left

Writers: Susan Stranks, Lois Siegel, Ron Allen, Hoda Elatawi

After fifty years of acting, Plummer's star burns brighter than ever.
In 2002, the legendary actor returns to the Stratford Festival as King Lear
after a career that has spanned film, television and the theatre

GAPC
General Assembly Production Centre

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Les Violons du Roy
"Ode to a Requiem"
Film directed by Don Winkler, produced by Craig Graham
Premiere CBC "Opening Night" Series
April 2007

Nominated for Two Gemini Awards
Best Performing Arts or Arts Documentary Program

Recognizing achievement in English-language television production
and

Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program
Nominated for Two Gémeaux

Celebrating excellence in French-language television production

Lois Siegel Stills Photographer

2006

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Filmmaker Lois Siegel appeared at Hopewell Avenue Public School
in Ottawa.
She taught a Film Animation Flipbook Workshop to Grade 7 students.

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Hopewell is a dynamic school with a long history of success
in the Old Ottawa South community.

Photos

2006

©Photo by Lois Siegel

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.

©Photo by Lois Siegel

Douglas Anderson is an award-winning institution on Florida's
North Atlantic coastfocusing on film, music, theatre and the visual arts.

©Photo by Karen Sadler, ArtLife Productions

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.

Photos

©Photo by Thom Fountain

Ottawa
Event of the Year
2007

©Photo by By Charles Frost
Lois Siegel, Marie Deziel, Dan Perkins, Mike Blakeley

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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