Power of Non-Verbal Communication

Mike Siegel was born in 1967 in Sindelfingen, Germany. As a little boy, Siegel grew up at the local movie theatre where he watched more than 3000 films and he soon started collecting movie memorabilia. His early experiences with film making came through small jobs on the sets of his former neighbor Roland Emmerich's first four science-fiction movies. In 1992 Siegel moved to Munich where he studied film making and made his first documentaries. 1997 marked a turning point: He met US film maker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Sin City) who encouraged Siegel to shoot his $10.000 feature film debut Pendechos! on 16mm. Like Rodriguez, Siegel does all the jobs himself: Producing, directing, writing, photography and editing.

In 2000 Siegel co-organizes a Sam Peckinpah festival in Padua, Italy. It includes the most complete retrospective to date and an exhibition of the director's life and films. Attending guest stars like James Coburn and Ali MacGraw agree to be part of a feature-length documentary Siegel plans on the director's life. Starring Ernest Borgnine, Kris Kristofferson and Senta Berger, Passion & Poetry - The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah starts shooting in 2003 in Mexico, Los Angeles, London & Berlin.

In December 2003 Mike Siegel's accompanying photo-book on Peckinpah is published in Germany: Passion & Poetry - Sam Peckinpah in Pictures. The film Passion & Poetry - The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah premieres at the 2005 Munich Film Festival. After several screenings at international film festivals the film is released as a 2-disc special edition DVD in 2009.

In 2011 Siegel published his second book. Co-authored by Andrew Antoniades Steve McQueen: The Actor and His Films was published by Dalton Watson Fine Books in 2011. Mike Siegel is also a writer of DVD booklets and a regular contributor to the UK / US magazine Cinema Retro.

Mike Siegel was born in 1967 in Sindelfingen, Germany. As a little boy, Siegel grew up at the local movie theatre where he watched more than 3000 films and he soon started collecting movie memorabilia. His early experiences with film making came through small jobs on the sets of his former neighbor Roland Emmerich's first four science-fiction movies. In 1992 Siegel moved to Munich where he studied film making and made his first documentaries. 1997 marked a turning point: He met US film maker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Sin City) who encouraged Siegel to shoot his $10.000 feature film debut Pendechos! on 16mm. Like Rodriguez, Siegel does all the jobs himself: Producing, directing, writing, photography and editing.

In 2000 Siegel co-organizes a Sam Peckinpah festival in Padua, Italy. It includes the most complete retrospective to date and an exhibition of the director's life and films. Attending guest stars like James Coburn and Ali MacGraw agree to be part of a feature-length documentary Siegel plans on the director's life. Starring Ernest Borgnine, Kris Kristofferson and Senta Berger, Passion & Poetry - The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah starts shooting in 2003 in Mexico, Los Angeles, London & Berlin.

In December 2003 Mike Siegel's accompanying photo-book on Peckinpah is published in Germany: Passion & Poetry - Sam Peckinpah in Pictures. The film Passion & Poetry - The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah premieres at the 2005 Munich Film Festival. After several screenings at international film festivals the film is released as a 2-disc special edition DVD in 2009.

In 2011 Siegel published his second book. Co-authored by Andrew Antoniades Steve McQueen: The Actor and His Films was published by Dalton Watson Fine Books in 2011. Mike Siegel is also a writer of DVD booklets and a regular contributor to the UK / US magazine Cinema Retro.