Aerlyn Weissman (born 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a two-time Genie Award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker and political activist on behalf of the lesbian community.
[1] Weissman's indie documentary Little Sister’s vs Big Brother, a stirring and comprehensive epic of the bookstore's struggles against state censorship, premiered in 2002.
[1] Her other films include Scams, Schemes, and Scoundrels (1996), Lost Secrets of Ancient Medicine: The Blue Buddha in Russia (2006) and The Portside (2009), as well as episodes of the television series KinK.
Based in Vancouver,[4] Weissman has studied at the Centre for Digital Media and taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
[11] Aerlyn Weissman's work has covered topics ranging from forensic archaeology, digital technologies, censorship, and social software.
Weissman also won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary in 1993 for Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives.