Join Film Fatales on Friday, December 3rd at 10:30AM PT for a grant-writing workshop with the creative team behind 93Queen, producer Heidi Reinberg and director Paula Eiselt.
93QUEEN is the ITVS / arte SWR/ YesDocu co-production that received funding from all the major funders including Sundance, Tribeca, IDA, Open Society | Just Films, Fork Films, NYSCA, and the Hartley Film Foundation.
Director/Producer Paula Eiselt and Producer Heidi Reinberg will offer real-talk, straight-up advice for navigating the documentary-funding landscape — including grants, equity financing and co-productions.
This will be a fully interactive session so bring all your burning questions. Capacity is limite
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Heidi Reinberg (Executive Producer at Necessary Pictures)
After distinguished careers in fashion and nonprofit, Heidi Reinberg's move into film production was inspired by Academy Award–winning documentary director Cynthia Wade. Reinberg produced Wade's debut feature documentary GRIST FOR THE MILL, which aired on Cinemax, and Wade's award-winning SHELTER DOGS, which premiered on HBO. In addition to 93QUEEN, Reinberg served as Consulting Producer on Tanya Cypriano's Emmy-nominated BORN TO BE, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and was released via Kino-Lorber. In addition to Wade and Eiselt, previously Reinberg worked with Oscar winner Ross Kauffman and award-winning directors Mai Iskander and Jeremiah Zagar. Selected credits include: WAR PHOTOGRAPHER / EXPOSURE (NBCUniversal); WORDS OF WITNESS (Al Jazeera); GARBAGE DREAMS (PBS); Oscar nominee POSTER GIRL (HBO); GENDER REBEL (Logo); WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS (PBS); MY SO-CALLED ENEMY (PBS); and, last but not least, HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL (HGTV). Her work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Institute; the Open Society Foundation; Just Films | Ford Foundation; the Winkelried Foundation; XTR; the Tribeca Film Institute; Catapult Film Fund; Fork Films; NYSCA; the IDA Enterprise Fund; the IDA Pare Lorentz Doc Fund; the Economic Hardship Reporting Project; Picture Motion; the Hartley Film Foundation; the Austin Film Society; the TFI A&E StoryLab; Women Make Movies; and the Independent Filmmaker Project. She is a frequent panelist on the subjects of grant-writing, fundraising, and pitching, and often serves as a consultant in the areas of project and story/character development. She is also an active advocate for the mental well-being of those in the documentary industry. Reinberg is also a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, where she serves on that body's Structural W
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.