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About Robert
Robert J. Siegel (WGA, DGA, Prof. Emeritus) is an American filmmaker from New York City. He spent the better part of his adolescence (and likes to say he grew up) at the Loew's Paradise theater in the Bronx. He attended NYU Film School, where he shot the school's first student film to be theatrically released, "Arrivederci Darling, That's My Advice To You," which received a Cine Golden Eagle award.
His senior thesis film, "City of Fire," was honored as a finalist at the San Francisco International Film Festival - and was one of the first student films to be offered worldwide distribution by the USIA.
Upon graduating film school, Siegel worked primarily in New York making documentaries and commercials. He was head of production for Carity Hoffman Associates, and subsequently worked for both J. Walter Thompson and McCann Erickson, where he produced and directed commercials for companies including Coca Cola.
For over 30 years, Siegel served as the head narrative professor at the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory, where he creatively supervised hundreds of thesis films.
His debut feature film, "Parades," was the first American film to address the Vietnam war - and created a firestorm of controversy when it premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas. A true maverick filmmaker, Siegel only makes films which speak to the immediate issues of modern life, and always in his own way and by his own rules.
Siegel's films have received recognition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival, and the USA Film Festival in Dallas. The Line was honored by invitation to the Montreal and Deauville International Film Festivals, and his work has been selected into the National Film Archives.
He lives in Westchester, NY, with his wife and children.
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On Dangerous Ground Thriller Louisiana. Spring. 1943. America is in the grip of war. A young black woman, Vivian Baptiste, searches for her father who has vanished from Angola Penitentiary just days before his scheduled release; the trail takes her deep into the bayous where she gets caught up in a deadly conspiracy to change the outcome of the war, involving powerful white supremacists, the German high command, and America's golden boy, Charles Lindbergh.
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Parades
Film by Confron Producer Director -
Swimming
by Oceanside Pictures Producer Writer Director -
The Line
by Independent CInema Associates Producer Writer Director -
Desending Angel
by HBO Producer Writer
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NYU Department of film and Television
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