Andrea Weiss

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Bio

Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and founder, with Greta Schiller, of Jezebel Productions. Her newest film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win several jury and audience awards on the international film festival circuit. Her many additional film credits include the award-winning documentaries Escape to Life, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award), A Bit of Scarlet and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others. A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman, which won a Lambda Literary Award, Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film, and The Shadow of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story, which won the Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, and Slovenian. Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Spain Fulbright Commission and the D.A.A.D. Artist Program in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in American History and is Professor of Film at the City College of New York, where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.

Appearances on CUNY TV

CUNY TV Digital Series: Stonewall @ 50

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