Andrea Weiss is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker and nonfiction author. Most recently, she co-produced, co-directed and edited the feature documentary The Five Demands, which tells the little known story of a 1969 campus takeover that changed the face of higher education. The Five Demands had an arthouse cinema release and was broadcast nationally over public television in the U.S.
Andrea is also the writer/director/editor 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, and won several jury and audience awards, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Valladolid, 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. Additional credits include 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, among others.
Andrea’s books include Paris Was a Woman (Harper Collins, 1995; Counterpoint Press, 2013), winner of a Lambda Literary Award; Vampires And Violets (Penguin, 1993); and In The Shadow Of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story (University of Chicago Press, 2008), winner of the Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction. They have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Slovenian and Croatian.
Andrea 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 (New York), Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), D.A.A.D. Artist Program (Berlin), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), and BigCi (Australia). 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.
