Leah Warshawski, Director of "Big Sonia"

Leah Warshawski is a director and producer and her first feature, called FINDING HILLYWOOD, won multiple awards and screened at more than 65 festivals. She gave a TedX talk entitled “How Do You Cope With The Trauma You Didn’t Experience?”.  Her 2016 feature film, BIG SONIA,  features her grandmother, Sonia Warshawski, who is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City. The film has screened around the world and was praised by critics in the  New York Times,  NPR, and more.