Sundance Award-Winning Doc ‘Aftershock’ Acquired by Disney’s Onyx Collective, ABC News

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Angelique Jackson Filmmakers Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s Sundance award-winning documentary “Aftershock” has been acquired by Disney’s Onyx Collective and ABC News.News of the joint acquisition comes after the feature won the U.S.

Documentary special jury award for impact for change at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it made its debut as an official selection last month.

The documentary will stream as an original film from Onyx Collective on Hulu in the U.S., on Star Plus in Latin America and on Disney Plus in all other territories.Directed and produced by Eiselt and Lee, “Aftershock” explores America’s maternal health care crisis through the lives of Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac, described as “vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable.” “We are thrilled to partner with Disney’s Onyx Collective and ABC News to honor and uplift the lives of Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac,” the Eiselt and Lee stated. “We hope audiences will be as inspired and empowered as we are by their families’ trailblazing work to ensure the best birthing outcomes for all Americans.”As the documentary’s logline explains, “An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S.

maternal health system. … Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.”The filmmakers follow Gibson’s and Isaac’s bereaved partners, Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre, as they fight for justice and build communities of support, bonding especially with other surviving Black fathers.