Background
Greta Schiller was born on December 21, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Jane (Carlson) Schiller and Ray Homer Schiller.
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 2, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Greta Schiller attends the Panorama 40 press conference during the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin, at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 12, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.
Greta Schiller and her life partner and colleague Andrea Weiss.
(From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to t...)
From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, this toe-tapping music film tells the story of the swinging, multi-racial all-women jazz band of the 1940's. The movie was directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.
https://www.amazon.com/International-Sweethearts-Rhythm-Andrea-Schiller/dp/B07J35G3L2/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(A long-overdue film portrait of the once famous, and now,...)
A long-overdue film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan won fame in the 1930's with swing renditions of traditional songs, like "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie".
https://www.amazon.com/Maxine-Sullivan-Love-Institutional-Use/dp/B01FYWOS6K/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(Female artists, writers, photographers, designers and adv...)
Female artists, writers, photographers, designers and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture and most cherished a way of life quite different from the one left behind. The movie was directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.
https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Was-Woman-Juliet-Stevenson/dp/B011MI0NZK/?tag=2022091-20
1996
Greta Schiller was born on December 21, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Jane (Carlson) Schiller and Ray Homer Schiller.
Greta received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Greta's career began in 1984 with the theatrical release and PBS broadcast of her first feature documentary "Before Stonewall". The movie premiered in the Berlin International Film Festival and was showcased in over 75 film festivals worldwide. Also, the movie marked the beginning of Greta's collaboration with Andrea Weiss, who was the research director on "Before Stonewall".
In 1984, Schiller co-founded Jezebel Productions, a company, located in New York City and London, that focuses on educational films, based on real people. Later, Greta, together with Andrea Weiss, produced and directed a trilogy of films about women in jazz, namely "International Sweethearts of Rhythm", "Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women" and "Maxine Sullivan: Love to be in Love".
In 1994, with funds from Channel Four in England and ITVS/PBS, Greta wrote and directed a short fiction film "Woman Of The Wolf". Later, Greta’s highly estimated documentary, "Paris Was a Woman", premiered at the London and Berlin Film Festivals. The movie went on to win many awards at international film festivals. Moreover, it was released theatrically in the United States, Germany, Spain and Great Britain, breaking house records in several cities. The film was broadcast in 16 countries.
In 1998, Greta directed "The Man Who Drove With Mandela" and in 2000, she produced "Escape To Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story" movie. In 2002, Greta directed "I Live At Ground Zero", the movie, that offers a child’s eye view on September 11th. Her movie "No Dinosaurs in Heaven", directed in 2010, deals with the problem of creationists, posing as science teachers across the United States in order to introduce anti-science ideas into the science classroom and threaten the separation of church and state.
Greta's most recent work is "The Marion Lake Story" (2014), an uplifting environmental film, which follows a grass-roots community effort to restore a dying lake.
(This book was written by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.)
1988(From the Piney Woods School in the Mississippi Delta to t...)
1986(This movie offers a different take on the 9/11 disaster -...)
2002(A long-overdue film portrait of the once famous, and now,...)
1991(Female artists, writers, photographers, designers and adv...)
1996(The movie was directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosen...)
1984(The movie was directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.)
1988(The movie was directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss.)
1994Greta is openly lesbian.
Andrea Weiss, an independent documentary filmmaker and author, is Greta's life partner.