Andrea Weiss (filmmaker)

Andrea Weiss is an independent documentary filmmaker, author, and professor of film/video at the City College of New York[1] 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 an News & Documentary Emmy Award. She is also a historian, with a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University. She co-founded a non-profit film company, Jezebel Productions, with partner Greta Schiller, in 1984.[2] She is the author of: In The Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story[3] which won a Publishing Triangle Award, Paris Was a Woman (reprinted by Counterpoint Press, 2013) which won a Lambda Literary Award, and Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin, 1993). Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Slovenian, and Croatian. She 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. Her 2017 feature documentary, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Side by Side Film Festival in Russia, and was featured at the Houston QFest,[4] at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival[5] in July 2017, and at New York's NewFest in October 2017.[6] Additional film credits include International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women, Paris Was a Woman, Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (co-directed with Wieland Speck), and A Bit of Scarlet, among others. She has lived in London, Berlin, and Barcelona, and currently resides in New York City.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CCNY Filmmaker Andrea Weiss Unveils Post-Franco "Bones" – CUNY Newswire". www1.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  2. ↑ Aitken, Ian (2006). Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-57958-445-0. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Daily Beast". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  4. ↑ Tommaney, Susie (2017-07-21). "Find Sizzle on the Big Screen During This Year's QFest Film Festival". Houston Press. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  5. ↑ "2017 Outfest LGBT Film Festival Lineup Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  6. ↑ "NewFest brings a bevy of LGBT films to NYC | Film Journal International". www.filmjournal.com. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.