Paula Eiselt is a Peabody-award-winning and Primetime Emmy-nominated independent filmmaker known for her journalistic rigor in telling timely and intelligent cinematic stories led by strong-willed characters. Her films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide including Sundance, SXSW, and Hot Docs, and distributed on platforms such as Hulu, Disney+, HBOMax, PBS’s POV, and Arte. She is most notably known for her award-winning documentary features, 93Queen (HBOmax/POV) and Aftershock (Sundance/Hulu/Disney+), and most recently, Under G-d (Sundance 2023/POV Shorts). Aftershock premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Doc Competition and was awarded the Special Jury Award: Impact for Change. The film was acquired by Disney’s Onyx Collective and ABC News Studios and released on Hulu and Disney+ in July 2022. Most recently, Aftershock was nominated for a 2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and named a 2023 Peabody Award winner. Other awards include the Full Frame Film Festival’s Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, NIHCM Television and Journalism award, as well as two Critics Choice Documentary awards nominations, including Best Documentary Feature. Paula is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Film Production and Cinema studies. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their 4 children.