Big Sonia tells the story of Sonia Warshawski, a spunky 89-year-old tailoring shop owner and survivor of the Holocaust. In this interview with KCTS 9, co-directors Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday reflect on family, healing and crazy car rides in Sonia’s pink...
Kansas City — As a child growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Leah Warshawski caught only rare glimpses of her grandmother, who lived across the state in Kansas City. Around the time of her bat mitzva, as she helped her father in his quest to transcribe his family’s...
Over the past few years, a growing band of Pacific Northwest talented and fierce female creatives have taken the regional community of independent film, TV, media and music by storm. This two-part cover story takes us into the hearts and minds of some of Washington’s...
Big Sonia, the latest documentary by Leah Warshawski, follows in the socially aware steps of Finding Hillywood, her award-winning 2013 history of the Rwandan film industry. But the Seattle-based filmmaker’s follow-up takes a personal turn: Warshawski’s subject in this...
The grants, presented by SIFF in association with True Productions and Áegis Living, will support Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday’s ‘Big Sonia’ and Kate Dandel’s ‘Gold Balls.’ The two feature-length documentaries, both of which...
KC Live interviewed Regina and Sonia about our upcoming work-in-progress fundraiser through the Kansas City Jewish Film Festival. “Sonia Warshawski shares her unique life and how that was translated into a documentary.” Watch interview
Not everyone is going to want to see your film — and that’s okay. “Finding Hillywood” profiles the very beginning of Rwanda’s film industry and a few of the industry’s pioneers who screen films in their own language on a giant...
My husband and I were in Shanghai recently (at a few international schools) screening our last film (FINDING HILLYWOOD) and showing a clip from our new film in production, BIG SONIA. Halfway though the clip you see the number tattooed on Sonia’s forearm as she’s...
