Biography
Andrea Weiss is an author and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in History. In 1984, she founded the non-profit film company Jezebel Productions with Greta Schiller, and they subsequently collaborated on many award-winning documentaries including "Before Stonewall" (1985) and "Paris Was a Woman" (1995). She has also written, produced, directed and edited numerous documentary films over the past two decades, including "International Sweethearts of Rhythm" (1988), a portrait of an all-female jazz band from the 1940s, "A Bit of Scarlet" (1997), a feature-length collage on British attitudes toward homosexuality, and "Seed of Sarah" (1998), an experimental documentary/opera based on the memoirs of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, and "Escape to Life - The Erika and Klaus Mann Story" (2000). She is the author of several non-fiction books including "Paris Was a Woman", "Vampires and Violets", and "Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story".
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