Hannah Weyer is an American filmmaker and writer living in New York, who has written, directed and produced narrative and documentary films.
Most recently, her short story, "Sanctuary City", won the 2018 Danahy Fiction Prize[6] and will be published in Tampa Review's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
La Boda first aired nationally as part of the PBS program, POV-American Documentary, and then again as an "encore performance" during the series' 2001 line-up.
Weyer frequently collaborates with writer/director Jim Mckay (Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People).
For the past 15 years, Hannah has worked with teens in the media arts, volunteering at The Door, Scenarios USA, and Reel Works, and, along with filmmaker Jim McKay started an after school film club at a progressive high school in Brooklyn.