ERIC FRITH
Producer | Supervising Editor | Story Editor
Big Sonia
2016 Documentary Feature
Story Producer | Consulting Editor
Distribution: Sundance Now, PBS
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Best Documentary - Napa Valley Film Festival, Kansas City Film Festival
Audience Award - Napa Valley Film Festival, Mendocino Film Festival, Philadelpia Jewish Film Festival, Tallgrass Int. Film Festival, Cleveland Int. Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival
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. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, BIG SONIA also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.