There’s a reason why “Big Sonia” won the prize for best documentary and the audience award at the Napa Valley Film Festival and has been nominated for best documentary in AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards: It’s a charming and emotionally moving film, much like the...
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...