Lois Siegel

Lois Siegel (born 1946) is an American-born Canadian film director and photographer. She is most noted for her 1989 short documentary film Stunt People, and her 1995 feature documentary Baseball Girls.

Early career Born in Wisconsin, Siegel attended Ohio University, where she was a sportswriter for the student newspaper. She followed up in 1988 with Strangers in Town, a mid-length documentary film about people with albinism.

In this era she also had numerous credits as a casting director, including on the films Train of Dreams, Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, Princes in Exile and Vincent and Me.

Stunt People, released in 1989, was a longer film about the same family of stunt performers she had profiled in Stunt Family.

She followed up in 1993 with Lip Gloss, a documentary film about the drag scene in Montreal whose participants included Armand Larrivée, Derek McKinnon and Guilda. Baseball Girls, a film about the history of women's baseball, followed in 1995. She did this mainly as a hobby at first, but after Baseball Girls she began to exhibit her photography in gallery shows. and continued to work as a freelance photographer for media, arts organizations and community groups in the city. She was also the writer of "A Man for All Stages", a documentary about actor Christopher Plummer, for the CBC Television biographical documentary series Life and Times.

Filmography Spectrum in White - 1971 Paralysis - 1972 Painting With Light - 1974 Boredom - 1976 Faces - 1976 Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family - 1978 Dialogue of an Ancient Fog - 1978 Recipe to Cook a Clown - 1978 Solitude - 1978 Arena - 1979 A 20th Century Chocolate Cake - 1983 Plastic Dreams - 1988 Strangers in Town - 1988 Stunt People - 1989 Pancake on a Hot Tin Roof - 1990 Lip Gloss - 1993 Baseball Girls - 1995