Bottom line: An unforgettable woman refuses to forget in this thoughtful exploration of history’s fallout. The Holocaust survivor profiled in Leah Warshawki and Todd Soliday’s film turned 91 during its premiere run at the Napa Valley Film Festival, where it received...
November 21, 2016. DOC NYC concluded its run of incredible documentaries this past Thursday, November 17. Even though the festival has ended, I am still making my way through the screener links sent to me from the festival’s publicist. These screener links enable me...
Kicking off last week and continuing through this Thursday, DOC NYC is a utopia for the year’s best documentaries. One of the most promising will have a premiere tomorrow and today we’re pleased to premiere an exclusive clip. Big Sonia follows one of the last...
Sonia Warshawski knows the exact moment when she decided to go public with her past as a survivor of Auschwitz. She was watching television and saw a group of skinhead Holocaust deniers spouting their line, and a voice in her head said, “This was the reason you...
Sure, Kurt Russell, Viggo Mortensen, Matthew McConaughey, Aaron Eckhart and Julia Louis-Dreyfus overcame the odds to become Hollywood stars. Sonia Warshawski overcame the Nazis. The featured subject of the documentary “Big Sonia” joins the aforementioned celebrities...
Some of us choose to record our family histories in books, photos, audio recordings or through other creative media. Our eldest daughter, Leah Warshawski (and husband Todd Soliday), opted for a more arduous challenge — a documentary film about her grandmother (and my...
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...
