Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and founder, with Greta Schiller, of Jezebel Productions. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, followed by a widespread release on the international film festival circuit, winning festival awards in St. Petersburg, Russia and Valladolid, Spain. Her many film credits also include the award-winning documentaries Escape to Life, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award), A Bit of Scarlet, and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others.

A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman (Harper Collins, 1995; reissued by 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 (Univ. of Chicago Press 2008).