Special Interview with Andrea Weiss, Documentary Filmmaker

In this interview, Andrea Weiss shares her vision and experience of documentary filmmaking, talks about the subjects of her works and how she views the topic of social change through the camera lens. Andrea Weiss is the co-writer/director of Escape To Life, a feature documentary about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, which premiered in the Berlin and Rotterdam Film Festivals, followed by a wide European theatrical and television release. Her other film credits include 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), Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women, and International Sweethearts Of Rhythm which premiered in the New York Film Festival. With her graduate students at the City College of New York, she produced the feature documentary, U.N. Fever, which premiered in the Global Peace Film Festival. Andrea Weiss’ book Paris Was A Woman, on which her documentary film of the same name is based, was published