Billed as 'a kind of post-modern queer soap opera for Britain', Andrea Weiss' documentary tells a sharp story. She evaluates the way gay and lesbian people have been depicted in mainstream British film and television. Using clips to illustrate, she moves from Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes to the modern era via ST TRINIAN'S, Dirk Bogarde, and the CARRY-ON films. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen.
Andrea Weiss is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker. She is the writer/director of BONES OF CONTENTION, a feature documentary delving into the historical memory movement in Spain and the unknown story of LGBT repression under the Franco dictatorship, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She is also co-writer/director of ESCAPE TO LIFE, a feature documentary about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, which premiered in the Rotterdam Film Festival. Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts as well as a U.S./Spain Fulbright Fellowship.
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Bones of Contention (2017); I Live At Ground Zero (2002); Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2000)
