Bart Weiss is an award-winning independent producer, director, editor and retired educator from Dallas. He is mostly known as the director and founder of the Dallas VideoFest. He produces the TV show Frame of Mind on KERA TV in Dallas, and is the artistic director of 3 Stars Cinema. He has traveled to Nigeria, Pakistan and China to show American documentaries for the U.S. State Department.
He taught film and video at Texas A&M, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Austin and West Virginia State College and was an associate professor at UT Arlington, from which he retired. He is a former president of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, former (and founding) board member of Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, past vice president of the Texas Association of Film and Tape Professionals, founder and past president of the West Virginia Filmmakers’ Guild, and co-founder of the Dallas Video Festival and the Video Association of Dallas.
He has written for The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald and United Features Syndicate.
Bart received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in 1978 and a B.A. in Radio, TV and Film from Temple University in 1975.
Bart Weiss will introduce several movies at this year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival.
