Q&A with editor Sunita Prasad moderated by Anya Rous
A group of tenacious Hasidic women in Brooklyn take matters into their own hands to change their own community from within, smashing the community patriarchy by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.
SUNITA PRASAD is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker best known for editing impactful feature documentaries such as Aftershock (Sundance Special Jury Award; Hulu), Storming Caesars Palace (BlackStar Shine Award; Independent Lens), and 93Queen (HotDocs; HBOMax). Her work as a director and video artist has screened in festivals, galleries, and museums internationally including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Centre Clark in Montreal, and Flux Factory in New York City. Sunita has been recognized as one of DOC NYC & HBO Documentary Films 40 Under 40, a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow, and a Jerome Foundation Visual Artist.
Anya Rous (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based Producer and Vice President of Multitude Films, a queer and women-led independent production company dedicated to telling nonfiction stories by and about historically excluded and underrepresented communities.. Anya advises on impact strategy for films produced by Multitude and leads a movement orientation within the company’s producing model where films are drivers of culture change. Her latest films include Netflix Original Pray Away (Telluride, Tribeca 2020) in partnership with Ryan Murphy and Blumhouse; as well as Apart, the Emmy-winning episode of the HBO Max series Through Our Eyes, in partnership with Sesame Workshop. She co-executive produced the Oscar-shortlisted Call Center Blues (SXSW 2020, TOPIC) and Call Her Ganda (Tribeca 2018, POV) and co-produced Sundance Award-winning and IDA-nominated Always in Season (Independent Lens 2020) and Livingston Award-winning The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca 2018, POV), which was dubbed “a real-world conspiracy thriller” by Variety. Anya brings a combined 10 years of experience in funding strategy and impact campaigns for stories that further movements for racial, economic, and gender justice. She formerly served as the Director of Strategic Relationships at Just Vision and as a grantmaker at The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Anya was a 2019–2020 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, a 2019 Impact Partners Documentary Producing Fellow, a 2020–2021 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 filmmaker, and a 2021 Gotham/Cannes Producers Network Fellow.