The Hollywood Reporter — Aftershock’s greatest achievement is its refusal to peddle in hopelessness. Solutions do exist... The film ends with a powerful reminder that if Black lives matter then Black wombs must matter, too.

IndieWire — Aftershock is a powerful project... Through a combination of poignant home videos and present-day tributes, the film celebrates these women, allowing us to see them as more than statistics.

Variety — Aftershock, from directors Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee, tells the story of two young black women who died due to childbirth complications that could have been prevented.

IndieWire — The racially driven U.S. maternal health crisis was examined by the filmmaking duo, who also served as producers. Lee told IndieWire that it’s just the beginning for films and storytelling to showcase diverse casts, now that Hollywood has seemed to be catching up with demands for representation.

The Hollywood Reporter — Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s revelatory documentary delves into the crisis of Black maternal mortality in the United States.

Black Film and TV — Making its World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and playing in the U.S. Documentary Competition is Aftershock by producers and directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt.

No Film School — Paula Eiselt had embedded with her camera in a Hasidic all-woman EMT unit. Tonya Lewis Lee was showrunner on the She’s Gotta Have It update. And when they met, their strengths multiplied.

Women and Hollywood — Tonya Lewis Lee is a director, producer, and writer whose work through storytelling often explores the personal impact of social justice issues such as civil rights and criminal justice. Paula Eiselt directs and produces feature films about unforgettable characters thriving in unbelievable circumstances. Her passion for verité storytelling about fearless trailblazers fighting for change resulted in the award-winning film 93Queen.

RogerEbert.com — Aftershock, directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee, is an eye-opening and alarming documentary about a health issue for Black women in America

Variety — Directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt deliver a vital and moving documentary that shows the lives behind shameful statistics.

Associated Press — Though neither knew each other at the time, Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee both came to the same conclusion: This story needed to be told.

EBONY — Directors Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee brilliantly place a spotlight on an often overlooked medical issue that disproportionately affects Black women.

Black Girl Nerds — Aftershock is one of those films that comes at you hard with the best intentions. It succeeds in revealing what’s wrong and highlighting what you can do about it. It shakes and moves you, which is the mark of a great documentary.

Filmmaker Magazine — The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them.

Essence — Despite a shift in plans, projects premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival will reflect the ever-changing world that we know around us.

Deadline — American women in general, and African American women in particular, are losing their lives in or shortly after child birth in alarmingly high numbers, much higher than in other industrialized nations.

The Wrap — The Sundance documentary Aftershock zeroes in on an issue that until recently had gotten little attention — disparities in America’s maternal health care system.

As shot, directed and co-produced by Paula Eiselt, this heartening, unexpected story shows what happens when a group of Hasidic women, led by tireless, charismatic attorney Rachel "Ruchie" Freier, decided to create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in all of New York City.

THE NEW YORK TIMES — 93Queen does offer a more nuanced view of ultra-Orthodox Jews than is presented in films like One of Us from last year.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Forget Supergirl and Wonder Woman. To see a real female superhero in action, check out Paula Eiselt's documentary concerning the creation of an all-female, Hasidic EMT corps.

THE GUARDIAN — 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

Enter Rachel "Ruchie" Freier to upend my preconceived notions. Freier is the pigeonhole-avoiding star of filmmaker Paula Eiselt's 93Queen, a fascinating look at America’s very first all-female EMT corps—started in the heart of Borough Park, Brooklyn, home to one of the world's largest communities of Hasidic Jews.

More than five years in the making, Paula Eiselt’s feature debut is a labor of love about a group of Hasidic women in Brooklyn trying to form the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York.

Point of View Magazine — 93Queen expertly takes you into trials and tribulations, victories and reversals right out of a narrative film.

This is a rags-to-riches story, so naturally it begins with loneliness and existential despair. It begins around five years ago with Eiselt, an Orthodox filmmaker, having an idea about following certain women in Borough Park who are forming an all-female ambulance corps.

AS WOMEN ACROSS AMERICA FIGHT NEW BATTLES OVER THEIR RIGHTS AND RUN FOR OFFICE IN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS, THEY ARE ALSO STEPPING INTO NEW ROLES IN ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS GROUPS: BROOKLYN’S HASIDIC COMMUNITY.

EP. 154: ‘93QUEEN,’ A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT EZRAS NASHIM, FOUNDED AND STAFFED BY HASIDIC WOMEN AS THE FIRST ALL-FEMALE-VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE IN NEW YORK

It's a fascinating, intimate look at a world largely shrouded from outsiders but especially it's about a remarkable woman — Freier, 53, a mother of six, who would become the first Hasidic woman to hold public office in the United States.

Think feminism and Hasidism are polar opposites? Think again. Paula Eiselt’s first feature film, 93Queen, focuses on the battle to establish Ezras Nashim, a Hasidic women’s EMT group.

When I started college at New York University in 1990, nobody lived in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was the dark side of the moon. At least that’s how we NYU students thought about it.

NO FILM SCHOOL — 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.

Directed by Paula Eiselt, a member of the Orthodox Jewish community, the film captures the women's journey to save lives.

REALSCREEN — Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, the 85-minute documentary follows a group of Hasidic women who launch Ezras Nashim, the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in the country.

THE NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK — For most of the six years she was filming, Eiselt was a one-woman crew

Alliance of Women Film Journalists — Documentarian Paula Eiselt has found a terrific story for this, her debut feature. As an orthodox Jew herself, Eiselt was granted extraordinary access to her subject, and to the other Hasidic women behind Ezras Nashim

Jewish Standard — Local filmmaker’s documentary on all-female EMS group in Brooklyn looks at change and pushback in chasidic world

WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD — It won’t be long before audiences are introduced to the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in the United States.

VARIETY — Abramorama has acquired the U.S. and Canadian theatrical rights to Paula Eiselt’s feature directorial debut, “93Queen.”

JEZEBEL — The documentary, from filmmaker Paula Eiselt, follows a group of Hasidic women forming their own Hatzolah, the volunteer EMT service for Orthodox communities

NOW Magazine — There are many films at Hot Docs in which women step out of their usual roles, but this one is especially effective.

WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD — Directed by Paula Eiselt, the upcoming documentary sees the underdogs defying expectations and odds to create Ezras Nashim, the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.

IndieWire — First-time director Paula Eiselt stole the show with her parting line: “Change isn’t made by the women who leave; change is made by the women who stay.”

FILMMAKER MAGAZINE — “After starting production on 93QUEEN three years ago — and giving birth to my third child three months ago — I walked into the IFP Documentary Lab armed with my breast pump and a 10-minute trailer, ready to present both of my ‘babies.’”