Andrea Weiss (filmmaker)


Andrea Weiss is an American independent documentary filmmaker, author, and professor of film/video at the City College of New York where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film. She was the archival research director for the documentary Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, for which she won a News & Documentary Emmy Award.

Personal life

Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts as well as a U.S./Spain Fulbright Fellowship. She has a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University.
She has lived in London, Berlin, and Barcelona, and currently resides in New York City.

Career

Books

Weiss is the author of: Vampires and Violets : Lesbians in the Cinema ; Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank, which won a Lambda Literary Award, ; and In The Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, which won a Publishing Triangle Award. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Slovenian, and Croatian.

Film

She co-founded the non-profit film company, Jezebel Productions, with partner Greta Schiller, in 1984.
Film credits include International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women, Paris Was a Woman, A Bit of Scarlet, Seed Of Sarah, Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story , I Live At Ground Zero, ReCall Florida, U.N. Fever, No Dinosaurs in Heaven.
Her 2017 feature documentary, Bones of Contention, premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Side by Side Film Festival, was featured at QFest in Houston, Outfest in Los Angeles, and the NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival.