Directed: |
Paula Eisielt |
Produced by: |
Paula Eiselt and Heidi Reinberg |
Executive Producer: |
Marco Williams |
Camera: |
Paula Eiselt |
Editors: |
Rebecca Laks, Sunita Prasad |
Music: |
Laura Karpman |
Length: |
90’ |
Language: |
English |
Country: |
USA |
Year: |
2018 |
SYNOPSIS
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93QUEEN follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unprecedented — and insider — access, 93QUEEN offers up a unique portrayal of a group of empowered women who are taking matters into their own hands to change their own community from within.
DIRECTOR
Paula Eiselt is an independent filmmaker and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Film Production and Cinema Studies. Her work has been supported by the Independent Television Service (ITVS); the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program with support from Open Society Foundations and Just Films | Ford Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); Fork Films; the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, with support from the Oath Foundation; the
International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund; Picture Motion; the Hartley Film Foundation; the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP); and Women Make Movies (WMM).
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