Tomboychik

A series of intimate video vignettes depicting the fierce love between Maverna and Sandi, 88 and 22, grandmother and grandson. The two playmates dress up drag-esque to arrive at a moving portrait of a woman's life and the struggle with gender and sexuality across three generations. Now that Malverna has died, Tomboychik has become a living memorial to her ferocity of spirit.

Sandi Simcha DuBowski (Director, Producer) is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. His current project, Trembling Before G-d is a USA/France/Israel co-production. It is being co-produced with Keshet Broadcasting/Channel Two in Israel, the nation's most significant television network and the station's first-ever outright co-production with U.S. IFFCON, and The Independent Feature Project's No Border for Docs. He is a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's 1999 Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. In addition, his work has received support from Skywalker Sound - a division of Lucas Digital, Ltd. as well as over twenty foundations including: The Creative Capital Foundation, The National Foundation for Jewish Culture's Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking, The Jerome Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Ruth/Allen Ziegler Foundation, Andrew Tobias and Charles C. Nolan Funds of Stonewall Community Foundation, The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, The Tom Healy and Fred Hochberg Foundation, The H. van Ameringen Foundation, The Mathilde & Arthur B. Krim Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Michael Palm Foundation, The Burstein Family Foundation, The Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, The Recanati Foundation, and The Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund. His work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue, Filmmaker, The Independent, Esquire, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Out Magazine, Planet Out Television, The Advocate, In The Life TV, The Jewish Week, The Forward, and The Jerusalem Post. In 1992, DuBowski graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University. He received two Ford Program for Undergraduate Research grants.