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
Northwest Broadcast News Association (regional Emmy), 1983
National Association of Working Women, Best Profile, 1983
National Film Board of Canada
International Public Television Festival (INPUT): 1986, 1985, 1984
Tokyo Video Festival, First Prize, Nuclear Outpost, 1985
Chicago International Film Festival, Cinematography, Nuclear Outpost, 1985
The Humanitarian Award at the Long Island International Film Expo, June 30, 2014
Emmy (New York), City Arts, WNET, 1999
Grants
Ontario Arts Council Grant, 1979
Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2005
Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2010
Provost Faculty Research Fund Grant, The New School, Office of the Provost, 2013-14
Books
The Lace Ghetto
Filmography
Visions of Cinema (Interviews with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jonathan Demme, and Jean Luc Godard) Visions of Home Jean-Luc Godard 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 Adoption Nuclear Outpost Mickey's Diner Nuclear Outpost Nighttime at the Diner Lessons from an American Primary
Articles
"I believe my eyes: The transformative theatre of Hanif Kureishi",