Lunch with Sandi Dubowsky (Filmmaker)

Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), in partnership with the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, would like to invite the community to a special lunch with filmmaker Sandi DuBowski.

Sandi Simcha Dubowski was born on September 16, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. He is a director and producer, known for Trembling Before G-d (2001): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278102/?ref_=nmbio_mbio, Sabbath Queen (2024): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32145808/?ref_=nmbio_mbio and Budrus (2009): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542411/?ref_=nmbio_mbio. His award-winning work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, and Toronto, been theatrically released in 150 cities, and broadcast on ZDF/Arte, BBC, Channel 4, and PBS. In 2020, he was invited to join 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, Los Angeles Times, 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 a co-founder of The Creative Resistance, a collective of media makers who create award-winning political ads and design. In the mid-1990s, he began his media and activism work at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, focused on the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement.

All are welcome. Catering by Rosenfeld Bagels.