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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.
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.
- 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 ...
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
Jul 10, 2018 · But Freier’s leadership and inner strength help the members of what they call Ezras Nashim (“helping women”) persevere.
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 and Just Films | Ford Foundation, the New York ...
Jul 25, 2018 · In a new documentary, the brave work of a group of rule-breaking women in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn is brought to light
