Paula Eiselt lives between two worlds. It's not every day that you find a wig-wearing, Orthodox woman behind the camera, appearing at major film festivals, and going to industry parties.
Yet, there she is.
It's been a year since , '93Queen,' Eiselt's acclaimed documentary film about Hasidic Judge Ruchie Freier's women-led ambulance crew, was released — and Eiselt is finally ready to open up about the long journey behind the documentary, and about breaking into the film industry.
"I don't talk much about being Orthodox," the petite, dark-haired 33-year old resident of Teaneck, New Jersey tells me on a spring afternoon when we meet at a coffee shop near New York's Freedom Tower. "I don't want that to be what defines me. What defines me is my art."
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