Paula Eiselt is a Primetime Emmy-nominated, Peabody award and duPont-Columbia award-winning, two time Sundance Film Festival director and Jury Prize winner, known for her journalistic rigor in telling timely and intelligent cinematic stories led by strong-willed characters. Her films can be found on platforms such as Hulu, Disney+, HBOMax, PBS’s POV, and Arte, and have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide including Sundance, SXSW, and Hot Docs. Her award-winning documentary features include, 93Queen (Max/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 named a 2023 Peabody Award winner, a 2024 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winner and was nominated for a 2023 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. 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’s most recent release, Under G-d, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Shorts Competition and was acquired by PBS’s POV Shorts. Released in July 2023, Under G-d has been awarded with the Local Jury Award at the 2023 Palm Springs International ShortFest and the Juried Prize Winner of the 2023 PBS Short Film Festival, to date.

Paula’s award-winning documentary feature debut 93Queen, a co-production with ITVS/PBS and Arte/SWR, premiered at Hot Docs and was released theatrically across the U.S. and Canada, including a six week hold over at NYC’s IFC Center. Previously 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.

Previously, Paula was a Concordia Studio fellow, Sundance Producers Summit fellow, IFP/Gotham Filmmaker Lab fellow and Wyncote fellow. Her work has been supported by numerous film institutions including, ITVS, Sundance Institute, Just Films | Ford Foundation, New York State Council of the Arts, International Documentary Association, Jewish Story Partners, among others.

In 2022, Indiewire named Paula one of 22 Rising Filmmakers to Watch and she is a 2022 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honoree. Paula is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Film Production and Cinema studies. She is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, International Association of Press Photographers and New York Women Film In TV.