|  Andrea
Weiss is an author, filmmaker and educator. Her newest drama/documentary
is Escape to Life: the
Erika and Klaus Mann Story, which premiered in
the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2001 and was
a special festival program at Berlin. It was chosen as the
closing night event of the New German Film Series at the Museum
of Modern Art and won Best Documentary in Seattle. Andrea
is now writing a biography of Erika and Klaus Mann for US
publication. (German and Swedish editions are already in print.)
Andrea's previous film, Seed
of Sarah, an experimental film combining documentary
filmmaking and avant garde opera, is a haunting tale of a
Hungarian girl's coming of age during the Holocaust. Seed
of Sarah was produced with the Banff Centre for the
Arts in Canada where Andrea was artist-in-residence in 1998,
and premiered in the Marseilles Documentary Festival, Vue
Sur les Docs. Andrea also directed and edited A
Bit of Scarlet, a feature-length documentary
essay film produced by the British Film Institute. A
Bit of Scarlet premiered in the 1996 Edinburgh Film
Festival, where it was chosen for "Best of the Fest",
and won Best Documentary at the Creteil women’s film
festival, Festival de Films de Femmes.
Andrea Weiss has collaborated with her partner Greta Schiller
on many documentary films including Paris
was Woman (writer/ producer), Before
Stonewall (research director), International
Sweethearts of Rhythm (producer/ director), and
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin'
Women (producer/ director), which have been broadcast
all over the world, from Austria to Zimbabwe. These films
have won numerous awards including two Emmy Awards, First
Place at the American Film Festival, and the Audience Favorite
Award at Creteil and Berlin.
Paris was a Woman, Andrea's book on which
her documentary was based, won a 1996 Lambda Literary Award,
was the basis for a 5-part BBC Radio program, and has been
translated into French, Japanese and German (now in its fourth
printing). It is slated to be reissued by New York University
Press in 2002. Andrea is also the author of the critically
acclaimed Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film
(Penguin 1993).
She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the
Arts grant, New York State Council on the Arts grants, a New
York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and the DAAD (Deutscher
Akademischer Austauchdienst) Artist Fellowship, with which
she lived as an Artist-in-Residence in Berlin in 1992-93.
Andrea has taught filmmaking at the International Film and
Photo Workshops in Rockport, Maine, and for many years ran
an intensive documentary course at the National Film and Television
School of Great Britain. She currently teaches in the film/
video program at City
College, the City University of New York.
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