With wit, insight and liberal illustrations, the author brings into her discussions a wide range of films, both popular and forgotten, as well as the work of contemporary directors such as Chantal Akerman, Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Ulrike Ottinger and many others. It premiered in LA in the Pan African Film Festival in February 2023.The story of lesbians and the cinema told for the first time in Vampires and Violets, is a love-hate affair in which the invisible becomes visible in fascinating and surprising ways. Her newest film, The Five Demands, tells the little known story of the 1969 student takeover of the City College of New York, which changed the face of higher education forever. History from Rutgers University, which awarded her the Distinguished Alumni Award. Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Spain Fulbright Commission, and the D.A.A.D. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, and Slovenian. A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman (Harper Collins, 1995 Counterpoint Press, 2013) which won a Lambda Literary Award, Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin, 1992) and In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story (University of Chicago Press, 2008) which won a Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction.

Her other film credits include Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall, A Bit of Scarlet and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others. Petersburg, Russia, and Valladolid, Spain. It won several jury and audience awards, including in St. Bones of Contention premiered in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, screened on the film festival circuit around the world, and had an art-house cinema release in Spain.

She is Producer/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.

Andrea Weiss is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Vampires and Violets by Andrea Weiss