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93Queen is a 2018 documentary film on Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn who form Ezras Nashim, an all-female ambulance corps.
Ezras Nashim was the subject of the 2018 documentary film 93Queen. The film follows Rachel Freier, as she runs for public office and creates the first all-female ambulance corps in the United States, negotiating her community initiative within the context of a male-dominated Hasidic community.
- Paula Eiselt, Director / Producer, Cinematographer
- Heidi Reinberg, Lead Producer
- Marco Williams, Executive Producer
- Adam Bolt, Producer
- Sunita Prasad, Editor
- Rebecca Laks, Editor
- Laura Karpman, Composer
- Perl Wolfe, Vocalist
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 ...
After distinguished careers in fashion and nonprofit, Reinberg’s move into film production was inspired by Academy Award–winning documentary director Cynthia Wade. Reinberg produced Wade’s debut feature documentary Grist for the Mill, which aired on Cinemax, and Wade’s award-winning Shelter Dogs, which premiered on HBO’s premiere doc strand, “Ameri...
Marco Williams is a filmmaker and a film educator. His directing credits include: Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt, The Black Fives, The Undocumented, Inside the New Black Panthers; Banished; Freedom Summer; I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education; MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream; Two Towns of Jasper; Making Peace: Rebui...
Most recently, Adam Bolt produced, edited, and wrote Ladies First: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates, which premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Bolt edited/co-wrote the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, and he recently won an Emmy for his work on the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously, where he served as Editor, Writer, and Se...
Sunita Prasad is a New York City-–based editor and film/video artist. Films and transmedia works she has edited have screened in major festivals internationally, including LA Film Fest, DOCNYC, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and Frameline. Previous documentary credits include Out in the Night, And Still I Rise: Black Americans since MLK, and MAK...
Rebecca Laks is a film editor based in New York City. Laks’ most recently edited the ITVS documentary Home Truth, which will air on PBS in Fall 2018. Laks’ previous narrative and documentary work includes Years of Living Dangerously (National Geographic), Hot Girls Wanted (Sundance Film Festival; Netflix), Missing People (LA Film Festival 2015) and...
Four-time Emmy winner, composer Laura Karpman maintains a vibrant career in film, television, videogame and concert music. Her distinguished credits include the series UNDERGROUND - in collaboration with Raphael Saadiq and John Legend - STEP - a Sundance 2017 favorite - Eleanor Coppola’s PARIS CAN WAIT starring Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin, Kasi Lem...
Perl Wolfe is a musician, songwriter, and music producer. She is best known as the lead singer and co-founder of Bulletproof Stockings, an all-girl Hasidic rock band from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Born and raised in a Hasidic family in Chicago, IL, Perl showed an interest and aptitude for music early on. She began training in classical piano at the ...
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.
Jul 24, 2018 · The feature debut of Paula Eiselt tells of the creation of Ezras Nashim, an all-female EMS corps for the Borough Park area, in Brooklyn.
- Paula Eiselt
93QUEEN is a co-production of MALKA FILMS, SWR in collaboration with ARTE, AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY | POV, and INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS) with funding provided by CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB) and has been produced with the support of The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program with support from Open Society Foundations ...
Jul 31, 2018 · When Paula Eiselt first came across an article in an online Yiddish publication about a group of Hasidic women forming an-all female EMT corps (Ezras Nashim), she was struck as if by lightning.
