- This is POV .
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of Wisconsin Public Television's
Director's Cut .
Tonight we bring you Paula Eiselt's 93Queen .
If you're in the mood for a good New York City drama,
I'm glad you turned off Blue Bloods
and found your way to PBS tonight.
The story of 93Queen unfolds through its main character,
a take charge Hasidic Lawyer and Brooklyn-based mother of six
as she creates the first all-female ambulance corps
in New York City.
Eiselt's film is set in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn
which has the largest enclave of volunteer EMTs in the world.
Don't worry.
I didn't know that fun fact either.
This EMT organization known as Hatzolah
has banned women from its ranks since its inception.
Enter Rachel "Ruchie" Freier
and her engaging cast of Hasidic women
who bravely take matters into their own hands
to provide emergency medical services
to the women and girls of Borough Park.
Paula Eislet calls her story
a "Hasidic variation of the #MeToo movement"
and says when she discovered this story
she had never even heard of
women challenging her community's status quo.
The filming took place over a four year period
and Eislet was literally a one women crew,
mostly to keep her project under wraps.
It's that kind of commitment to her craft
that allowed her to have the access to her main character
and execute her film so deftly.
Thanks to Paula Eislet,
a glass ceiling in New York City has been shattered...
Luckily, there are capable EMT's standing by.
93Queen starts now on Wisconsin Public Television,
your home for independent film.