Sandi DuBowski
is the Director/Producer of Sabbath Queen, Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
His award-winning work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca and Toronto, theatrically released in 150 cities, and broadcast on ZDF/Arte, BBC, Channel 4, PBS.
In 2020, he was invited to become a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. DuBowski spearheaded a groundbreaking impact campaign with the award-winning Trembling Before G-d, personally conducting 850 live events, for over 250,000 people, which changed the lives of countless individuals, their families, religious leaders, and communities around the world. Feature stories on the project appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Globe and Mail, and BBC News.
From 2009-2016, DuBowski worked with over 125 of the world’s best social justice documentaries as the Outreach Director of Doc Society’s Good Pitch. He is Co-Founder of The Creative Resistance, a collective of media makers who create award-winning political ads and design. In the mid-1990’s he began his media and activism work at Planned Parenthood Federation of America focused on the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement.
Three generations of DuBowski’s family made chocolate syrup in Deep Coastal Brooklyn.
Executive Producers
Darren Aronofsky
Jen Chaiken
S. Asher Gelman
Bruce Heavin & Lynda Weinman
Jess Jacobs
Jewish Story Partners
Audrey Rosenberg
Jeffrey Solomon & Audrey Weiner
Michael Dorf & Sarah Connors
Co-Producers
Ben Lowy
Simon Mendes
Co-Executive Producer
Matt Nosanchuk
Contributing Producers
Jeannie Blaustein
Carla Solomon
Jeff Schoenfeld
Editors
Francisco Bello ACE
Jeremy Stulberg
Kyle Crichton
Philip Shane
Writers
Francisco Bello
Sandi DuBowski
Jeremy Stulberg
Cinematographers
Dan Gold
Wolfgang Held
Nadia Hallgren
Kirsten Johnson
Laela Kilbourn
Dror Lebendiger
Sandi DuBowski
Composer
Joel Goodman
Sound
Judy Karp
Sean O’Neil
Animation and Graphics
Yaron Shin
Associate Editor
Meranda Yslas
Consulting Story Producer
Libby Lenkinski