Aerlyn Weissman
| Aerlyn Weissman | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | documentary filmmaker |
| Known for | Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives |
Aerlyn Weissman is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for the award-winning 1992 film Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, which she codirected with Lynne Fernie,[1] and the 2002 film Little Sister's vs. Big Brother, about the longstanding censorship battle between Canada Customs and Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, a prominent LGBT bookstore in Vancouver.[2]
Her other films have included Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about Jane Rule (1995), 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. She was also a co-director and coproducer of the 1987 drama film A Winter Tan, alongside Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, John Walker and John Frizzell.
Based in Vancouver,[3] Weissman has studied at the Centre for Digital Media and taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
She is interviewed in Matthew Hays' Lambda Literary Award-winning book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.[4]
References
- ↑ Bruce, Jean. "Querying or 'Queering' the Nation: The Lesbian Postmodern and Canadian Women's Cinema." Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 35-50.
- ↑ "A tale of two bookstores". Xtra!, January 19, 2006.
- ↑ Bjornson, Michelle. "Making Documentary Films: Panel Discussion with Nicole Giguère, Brenda Longfellow, Loretta Todd, and Aerlyn Weissman." Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul, 208-216. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.
- ↑ Hays, Matthew. "Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman: Out of the Shadows." Interview with Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman. The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers, 112-124. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.