Deanna Kamiel

Deanna Kamiel (July 6, 1946 – June 14, 2018) was a Canadian-born director, documentary film/public TV writer/producer with a career in public broadcasting at the CBC in Toronto and PBS in Minneapolis and professor of film development at SUNY Purchase College and then at The New School, Manhattan, New York City, US. 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. Kamiel's documentaries were based on live interviews of the person(s) the film was about. As a student at The University of Toronto in the 1960s, she wrote for The Varsity in Toronto, and The Ubyssey in Vancouver.

Awards Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984, Creative Arts, video and audio Museum of Modern Art Chicago International Film Festival, Cinematography, Nuclear Outpost, 1985 Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2005

Filmography

Visions of Cinema (Interviews with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jonathan Demme, and Jean Luc Godard) Visions of Home Boys with bats: an American romance Milgrom's Obsession Maggie and the Men of Minnesota, 1972 Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary Ruth Mickey's Diner Nuclear Outpost Nighttime at the Diner

Articles

"I believe my eyes: The transformative theatre of Hanif Kureishi",