Big Sonia, directed by Todd Soliday & Leah Warshawski, screens Friday June 1st through Sunday June 3rd at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30pm each night. Directors Todd Soliday & Leah Warshawski will join family members/cast for a panel discussion following each screening. Please send your name, number of tickets desired, and the screening that you would like to attend to films@webster.edu. The cashier will have a list at the door (tickets are $5 to $7. We can only accept cash or check. Winifred Moore Auditorium seats 240. The seating is general admission only).
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.
- 5/28/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The petite nonagenarian at the center of Big Sonia would be a compelling film subject under any circumstances. With her bright lipstick and penchant for animal prints (“They never go out of style”), Sonia Warshawski is as vibrant as she is diligent, single-handedly running a six-day-a-week tailor shop. That it’s the only thriving business in a moribund Kansas City mall is itself a story; so, too, is the jolt of Old World glamor she brings to a suburban Midwestern setting.
But for Sonia, the importance of keeping busy is no simple response to widowhood or means of fending off the...
But for Sonia, the importance of keeping busy is no simple response to widowhood or means of fending off the...
- 11/22/2016
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The two feature-length documentaries, both of which focus on subjects over the age of 80, are the beneficiaries of a three-year pledge from True Productions founder Dwayne Clark and his wife, Terese. The Seattle-based film, theater, and media production company will award one $50,000 grant annually during that time — though the competition was so strong in this, the program's inaugural year, that Clark tapped Aegis Living, the retirement, assisted living, and Alzheimer's care company of which he's CEO, to support a second $50,000 grant. Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday's "Big Sonia" depicts 90-year-old Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski — who stands at a not-so-big 4'8" — struggling with retirement and imparting life lessons after she's served an eviction notice for John's Tailoring, the last shop left in a dying suburban mall. Kate Dandel's "Gold Balls," filmed at four locations around the country, depicts the competitors in the tennis...
- 1/26/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
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