Elizabeth Pauker is a documentary film director, producer, researcher, and curator, with a passion for creating insightful, moving, and entertaining content that enhances the appreciation of the art and history of cinema. She has created hundreds of documentaries, commentaries, interviews, and supplements for the Criterion Collection and the Criterion Channel.

Elizabeth is currently directing a feature-length documentary on the trailblazing sexploitation director, Doris Wishman.

In 2018, Elizabeth produced a short-documentary, Death Metal Grandma, which premiered at SXSW Film Festival and was acquired by The New York Times Op-Docs (followed by The Atlantic Selects) and was an official selection at over 30 film festivals across four continents. The film focuses on a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who performs with a death metal band.

Elizabeth also produced the 2018 feature-length documentary, I Am the Revolution, about women in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan fighting for freedom and gender equality. It premiered at DocNYC and was shortlisted by Metro US as one of the 15 best documentaries of 2018. 

In 2022, The Matchmaker premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It portrays "the ISIS matchmaker" who recruited Western women to marry ISIS fighters in Syria. 

A graduate of the Master’s and Bachelor’s cinema studies programs at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, Elizabeth is a filmmaker committed to creative collaboration and compelling storytelling.