Weissman began filmmaking as a student at the City College of San Francisco in the early 1980s. Beginning in the mid-1980s, he began producing short films. In 1990, he was the first recipient of the
Sundance Institute Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, which included an internship on the
Joel and Ethan Coen film
Barton Fink. In the 1990s, Weissman produced a series of
public service announcements that focused on the emotional and psychological toll facing HIV-negative gay men during the
AIDS epidemic in the United States. In 1998, Weissman began producing and co-directing (with Bill Weber) the documentary
The Cockettes,
We Were Here was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary of 2011, and was on the short-list for the Best Documentary Academy Award. In 2014, he began working on a documentary interview series,
Conversations with Gay Elders, in which he works in partnership with gay men in their 20s and 30s as editors to profile gay men in their 70s and 80s. The first interview in the series was released in 2017. In 2007, Weissman co-founded (with Russ Gage) QDoc, a queer documentary film festival in Portland, Oregon. ==References==