Andrea Weiss is an American independent documentary filmmaker, author, and professor of film/video at the City College of New York[1] where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.

[citation needed] Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, Slovenian, and Croatian.

Her essays have been published in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Columbia Journal of American Studies, The Gay/Lesbian Review, and elsewhere.

[6] Film credits include The Five Demands (2023)International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1986), Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women (1988), Paris Was a Woman (1995), A Bit of Scarlet (1997), Seed Of Sarah (1998), Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2000) (co-directed with Wieland Speck), I Live At Ground Zero (2002), Recall Florida (2003), U.N. Fever (2008), and No Dinosaurs in Heaven (2010).

Where in 2019-20 she was named Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Which is an endowment granted to support an outstanding faculty member in research and creative activity.