Sabbath Queen
World Premiere

Sabbath Queen

Documentary Competition
Feature | United States | 105 MINUTES | English, Hebrew, Yiddish | English subtitles
New York, Animation, Documentary, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Biography

Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's journey as the heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis who is torn between accepting his ancestral destiny or becoming a drag queen rebel. In addition to his drag persona, Lau-Lavie is a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul: an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. With incredible access, award-winning director Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G_D, Sundance 2001) joins Rabbi Amichai on a life journey and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual while challenging gender norms in a rapidly changing 21st century.––Dan Hunt


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Sandi DuBowski
Director
Sandi DuBowski
Producer
Sandi DuBowski
Screenwriter
Francisco Bello, Sandi DuBowski, Jeremy Stulberg
Cinematographer
Dan Gold, Nadia Hallgren, Wolfgang Held, Kirsten Johnson, Laela Kilbourn, Dror Lebendiger,
Editor
Francisco Bello, Kyle Crichton, Philip Shane, Jeremy Stulberg,
Executive Producer
Adrian Salpeter, Darren Aronofsky, Jen Chaiken, Michael Dorf & Sarah Connors, S. Asher Gelman, Jess Jacobs, Audrey Rosenberg, Jeffrey Solomon and Audrey Weiner, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Add'l Credit 1
Co-Producer - Ben Lowy, Simon Mendes
Add'l Credit 2
Music - Joel Goodman
Add'l Credit 3
Animation - Yaron Shin
Cast
N/A

Contacts
Press Contact
Charlie Olsky
Cinetic Marketing
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 9175457260
charlie@cineticmedia.com
Print Source
Sandi DuBowski
Simcha Leib Productions
Brooklyn, NY NY
sandi@happylionproductions.com
Sales Contact
Annie Roney
ROCO Films
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 415 720 2121
annie@rocofilms.com
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