Deanna Kamiel Explained

Deanna Kamiel (July 6, 1946 – June 14, 2018) was a Canadian-born director, documentary film/public TV^[1] writer/producer ^[2] with a career in public broadcasting at the CBC in Toronto and PBS in Minneapolis ^{[3] [4]} and professor of film development at SUNY Purchase College and then at The New School, Manhattan, New York City, US.^[5] 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.^{[6] [7] [8]} Kamiel's documentaries were based on live interviews of the person(s) the film was about.^{[9] [10]} As a student at The University of Toronto in the 1960s, she wrote for The Varsity in Toronto,^[11] and The Ubyssey in Vancouver.^[12]

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984, Creative Arts, video and audio^[13]
• 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 ^[14]
• Chicago International Film Festival, Cinematography, Nuclear Outpost, 1985 ^[14]
• 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^[15]
• Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2005 ^[15]
• Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2010 ^[15]
• Provost Faculty Research Fund Grant, The New School, Office of the Provost, 2013-14 ^[15]

Books

The Lace Ghetto^[16]

Filmography

• Visions of Cinema^[17] (Interviews with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jonathan Demme, and Jean Luc Godard)^[18]
• Visions of Home ^[18]
• Jean-Luc Godard^{[19] [20]}
• Boys with bats: an American romance^[21]
• Milgrom's Obsession^[22]
• Maggie and the Men of Minnesota, 1972^{[23] [24]}
• Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary^{[25] [26]}
• Ruth
• Adoption
• Nuclear Outpost ^{[27] [28]}
• Mickey's Diner^[29]
• Nuclear Outpost^{[30] [31] [32]}
• Nighttime at the Diner ^[32]
• Lessons from an American Primary^[33]

Articles

• "I believe my eyes: The transformative theatre of Hanif Kureishi",^{[34] [31] [35]}

Notes and References

1. Monday. Sept. 18, 2017, Video Slowly Emerges at the Flaherty Seminar: Deirdre Boyle, Patricia Zimmermann, Chicago Film Festival
2. Variety, Pictures, Wednesday, January 26, 1983, p. 28 University of Toronto archives, AFI Women's Directing Workshop is Set for '83; Name Lindfors, Helmond,
3. International Documentary Association, Profile: The Documentary Media Studies Graduate Certificate Program at The New School, by Wanda Bershen, JUNE 30, 2014
4. Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisted,by Deirdre Boyle, Prof of History New York University, publ. by Oxford Univ. Press, USA 1996,, p. ix.
5. Web site: Remembering Deanna Kamiel. Jun 20, 2018. smscommons.newschool.edu. Mar 19, 2020.
6. Deanna Kamiel 1946-2018, written on June 19, 2018 by Louis Galdieri in News
7. News: Remembering Deanna Kamiel. Watson. Mary. 2018-06-20. The New School. 2018-06-28. Nikolic. Vladan. en-US.
8. Web site: Home . immediacy.newschool.edu.
9. The Minneapolis Star, Sept. 24, 1981, Variety/TV Tonight – Critic's Choice, p. 32, John Carman
10. An Interview with Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story, by Hanif Kureishi, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1995,
11. The Varsity, Sept. 20, 1965 to March 18, 1966 "Reception idea proves success"
12. Rat Blasted Into Space, The Ubyssey, Vancouver, B.C., Vol. XLVII, No. 35, Thurs., Jan. 14, 1965, p. 2
13. News: 4 From State Among Winners of Guggenheim Fellowships. 17 April 1984. Star Tribune. 28 June 2018. 26. Newspapers.com.
14. Faculty Film Helps Launch New Media Lounge at MoMa, The New School News, Feb 23, 2012
15. LibAnswers
16. Maxine Nunes, Deanna White, Publ. by New Press, 1972
17. Web site: Deanna Kamiel. IMDb. Mar 19, 2020.
18. Minneapolis: Intermedia Arts MN, ©1988
19. 1988, written and directed by D. Kamiel, TV short
20. "A YouTube Godard interview with documentary writer, producer for PBS, Deanna Kamiel (1980) is not that enlightening as to his purpose, but there are a few phrases here and there which express his attitude to film." Breaking The Glass Armour: Neoformalist Film Analysis, page 263, chapter 10, Godard's Unknown Country: Sauve qui peut (la vie), by Kirstin Thompson, 1988 (Review by Slarek of Region 2 AI DVD)
21. [Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.]
22. Miami Herald, Miami woman tracks her Jewish roots through 22 generations, by Ana Veciana-Suarez, produced by D. Kamiel, Jan. 3, 2014
23. Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Tues., Sept. 4, 1984, "COLEMAN: Steinman tells Maggie women set standards too high, by Erma Bombeck, pages 1C and 6C
24. News: Movies. 18 January 1985. Star Tribune. 28 June 2018. 40. Newspapers.com.
25. A 2008 documentary film about Howard Dean and his 2004 Presidential campaign, directed by Heath Eiden, starring Howard Dean, Release date 2008, United States
26. Twin Cities Daily Planet, unravelme1, "U.S. Premier", written by D. Kamiel, directed by Heath Eiden, April 14, 2008
27. Nuclear Outpost, 1984, color, KCTV Channel 19, Santa Barbara, CA
28. Journal of Film & Video, Vol. 36, No. 4, "Documentary Film Making" (Fall 1984), pp. 62-80, Publ. by University of Illinois Press, on behalf of the University Film & Video Association
29. The Post-Star, Glens Falls, New York, June 11, 1988, p. 14, "Video Series Continues" a ref for "Mickey's Diner", portrait of a vintage diner at St. Paul's Minnesota, and the people who work there"
30. Jan 23 Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY: Maggie and the Men of Minnesota; Nuclear Outposts; Boys with Bats; and selected shorter pieces, Film and Video Makers Travel Sheet, 1986
31. Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Hanif Kureishi, edited by Susan A Fischer, Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 13, 2015
32. The Documentary Today: A Symposium Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN 55114, Nov. 10-12, 1983, Conference Programs 1983-1984, Journal of Film & Video, XXXVI, Fall, 1984 p. 62
33. Web site: Lessons from an American Primary. Vimeo. Mar 19, 2020.
34. Hanif Kureishi's 'better philosophy', chapter 5, and his screenplay Venus (2006), chapter 2. "Hanif Kureishi ed. by Susan Alice Fischer: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 49 no. 1, 2018, pp. 157-160. Project MUSE
35. Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed by Susan Alice Fischer, Bloomsbury, Interview: "An Extraordinary Encounter", Stephen Frears, in conversation with Susan Alice Fischer and Deanna Kamiel