Aftershock

Paula Eiselt is an independent filmmaker drawn to stories that disrupt strong-held assumptions. A co-production with ITVS/PBS and Arte/SWR,  her award-winning documentary feature debut 93Queen was released theatrically across the U.S. and Canada, including a six week hold over at NYC’s IFC Center. Now streaming across HBOMax’s U.S and Latin American platforms, 93Queen was broadcast nationally on PBS’s POV, as well as internationally on ARTE in France and Germany, UR in Sweden, yes DocU in Israel, and CBC in Canada. 93Queen played at over 75 film festivals worldwide and was selected for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase.

Paula is currently a fellow at Laurene Powell Jobs and Davis Guggenheim’s Concordia Studio where she developed her latest feature length documentary Aftershock, now in post-production. 
 
Her work has been supported by ITVS, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund, Sundance Catalyst, Impact Partners, American Stories Documentary Fund (sponsored by CNN Films), Points North Institute, Just Films | Ford Foundation, NYSCA, Fork Films, Gucci Tribeca Doc Fund, IDA Enterprise Fund, IDA Pare Lorentz Doc Fund, Chicago Media Project, the Hartley Film Foundation, IFP, and Women Make Movies.

Paula is previously a Sundance Producers Summit fellow and IFP Filmmaker Lab fellow.
 
In 2019, Paula was named one of the Jewish Week's “36 Under 36” for her role in amplifying women's voices and serves on the board of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. 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. 

Producer, writer, entrepreneur & women’s health advocate, Tonya Lewis Lee has spent over twenty years delivering quality content across multiple platforms.

Tonya’s most recent series SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT is now streaming on Netflix. Her most recent film MONSTER premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 is also currently streaming on Netflix. 

For over a decade, Tonya has produced scripted and unscripted work, including such classics as MIRACLE’S BOYS, a six-part television series, and the television film THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, based on the Christopher Paul Curtis novel.

In  2009, Tonya produced the documentary CRISIS IN 
THE CRIB for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, exploring infant mortality in the United States.

Tonya is a member of the Writers Guild of America and a member of PGA’s Producers Council Board of Delegates, and Co-Chair of the One Guild committee advancing diversity, equity and inclusion.  She is also a member of the board of trustees of the March of Dimes.  Tonya is also a mother of two adult children and lives in New York City with her husband.