Andrea Weiss is an American independent documentary filmmaker, author, and professor of film/video at the

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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'' (1984). The film earned two nominations at the

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, Outstanding Informational Cultural or Historical Programming and Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Researchers, with her being awarded the latter.

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 Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. She lives in New York City and Columbia County in upstate New York. She is married to Greta Schiller and they have a daughter, Ilana.

Career

Books

Weiss is the author of: ''Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema'' (

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, 1992); ''Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank'' (Rivers Oram Press, 1995), which won a

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, (reprinted by Counterpoint Press in 2013); and ''In The Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story'' (

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, 2008), which won a Publishing Triangle Award. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Slovenian, and Croatian. Her essays have been published i
The Atlantic
The Daily Beast, The Columbia Journal of American Studies, The Gay/Lesbian Review, and elsewhere.

Film

She co-founded the non-profit film compan
Jezebel Productions
with partner Greta Schiller, in 1984. Film credits include
The Five Demands
' (2023)''

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'' (1986), ''Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women'' (1988), ''Paris Was a Woman'' (1995), ''A Bit of Scarlet'' (1997), ''Seed Of Sarah'' (1998), ''Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story'' (2000) (co-directed with

Wieland Speck Wieland Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau is a German film director, who since 1992 has coordinated "Panorama" at the International Filmfestival Berlin (Berlinale). Panorama showcases new films by established directors, as well as debut works ...

), ''I Live At Ground Zero'' (2002), ''Recall Florida'' (2003), ''U.N. Fever'' (2008), and ''No Dinosaurs in Heaven'' (2010). Her 2017 feature documentary
''Bones of Contention''
premiered at the 2017

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; won Best Documentary at the Side by Side Film Festival; and was featured at QFest in

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Outfest Outfest is an LGBTQ-oriented nonprofit that produces two film festivals, operates a movie streaming platform, and runs educational services for filmmakers in Los Angeles. Outfest is one of the key partners, alongside the Frameline Film Festival ...

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, and the NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival.

Teaching

She teaches at

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as a media and communication arts professor. She also holds a Ph.D. in American History. Where in 2019-20 she was named Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Which is an endowment granted to support an outstanding faculty member in research and creative activity. She was working on her project ''Flying Lessons'' when given this award.

References

External links

Jezebel Productions

Andrea Weiss
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Andrea Living people American documentary film directors American film editors American film producers American lesbian artists American LGBTQ film directors LGBTQ film producers American women documentary filmmakers American women film editors Filmmakers from New York (state) City College of New York faculty News & Documentary Emmy Award winners 1956 births 21st-century American LGBTQ people 21st-century American women artists