Andrea Weiss MCA Chair, Film & Video (Production)

Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and nonfiction author.  Her newest film, U.N. FEVER, an observational doc following three teams of college students who compete in the international Model U.N. conference, will be released in 2007.   Recently she produced RECALL FLORIDA, a road movie documenting the misadventures of former Attorney General Janet Reno while on the campaign trail for Governor of Florida.  She is the writer-director of ESCAPE TO LIFE, a fiction/documentary hybrid which premiered in the 2001 Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals followed by a wide European theatrical and television release.  Professor Weiss’s previous work includes I LIVE AT GROUND ZERO, SEED OF SARAH, A BIT OF SCARLET, BEFORE STONEWALL (which won two Emmy Awards), INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM, TINY & RUBY: HELL DIVIN’ WOMEN, and PARIS WAS A WOMAN.  Her company, Jezebel Productions, based in New York and London, has been honored with retrospectives in Munich, Berlin and Paris.

Andrea Weiss has a Ph.D. in history and is the author of PARIS WAS A WOMAN (Harper Collins, 1995), VAMPIRES AND VIOLETS (Penguin, 1993), and IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2007).   Her books have been translated into French, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, and Croatian.  She was 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, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and the D.A.A.D. Artist Program in Berlin.  She has taught at the International Film and Photo Workshops in Rockport, Maine, New York University, and the National Film and Television School of Great Britain.

aweiss@ccny.cuny.edu