Andrea Weiss

Andrea Weiss is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker. She is the writer/director of Bones of Contention, a feature documentary delving into the historical memory movement in Spain and the unknown story of LGBT repression under the Franco dictatorship. Bones of Contention premiered in the Berlin Film Festival, screened on the film festival circuit around the world, and had an art-house cinema release in Spain. She is also co-writer/director of Escape To Life, a feature documentary about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann which premiered in the Rotterdam Film Festival followed by a wide European theatrical and television release. Her other film credits include U.N. Fever, Recall Florida, I Live At Ground Zero, Seed Of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, A Bit Of Scarlet, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award), International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women. 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 been an artist in residence at Yaddo Artist Colony (New York), Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), D.A.A.D. (Berlin), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), and BigCi (Australia). She holds a Ph.D. in History, and co-directs the MFA Program in Film at the City College of New York.