Greta Schiller is an American documentary director. Greta Schiller Born December 21, 1954 (age 63) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Occupation director, producer, editor, cinematographer Years active 1978-present Partner(s) Andrea Weiss Contents Career Edit Her 1976 short film Greta's Girls is one of the first independent short films that focuses on lesbians.[1] She had a part directing the 1981 documentary Greetings from Washington, D.C. which details the first important LGBT walk in 1979[1] and Maxine Sullivan: Love To Be in Love.[2] Later on, Schiller, who is openly lesbian,[3] teamed up with her film-making partner Andrea Weiss to direct the 1985 documentary Before Stonewall[1] which won two Emmy awards. Before Stonewall was the first gay or lesbian film to be funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[4] In 1984, Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss founded their own production company Jezebel Productions. The company emphasizes on educational films based on real people. The company is based in New York City and London since 1998. The creators were strongly influenced by both the New Left movement and the women's and gay liberation movements of the 1970s.[4] They also directed International Sweethearts of Rhythm in 1986 which is about African American women musicians performing in the 1930s to 1940s, a 1988 romance entitled Tiny & Ruby: Hell Drivin' Women, and the 1996 documentary Paris Was a Woman.[1] Paris Was a Woman, being about creative lesbians in 1920s Paris, was a labor of love for Schiller and Weiss, taking 5 years to produce and breaking house records.[4] Schiller and Weiss have different areas of expertise which they bring to their filmmaking.[3] Schiller produced Escape To Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (directed by Weiss). Schiller directed The Man Who Drove With Mandela in 2000 and I Live At Ground Zero in 2001.[2] She produced and directed No Dinosaurs in Heaven, about the problem of creationists infiltrating science education, in 2011. Schil