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), for which she won a

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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

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. 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'' (

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

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...

, (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 The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards prog ...

. 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 Greta Schiller is an American film director and producer, best known for the 1984 documentary '' Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community''. Personal life Schiller received the US/UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film and grants ...

, in 1984. Film credits include ''

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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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, and the NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival.

References

External links

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Jezebel Productions
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