D'Arts Connector interviews to a first-time movie director Sophia Romma. Her independently produced movie "Used and Borrowed time" has garnered numerous awards this festival season and was Oscar Eligible. And this is only one side of my guest's many talents. Our inspirational conversation turned out to be absolutely fascinating. Do not leave in the middle!
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The legendary Charles Weldon, Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company presents a tale summoning tolerance and equity for immigrants worldwide in Sophia Romma's play at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. Prepare to engage in politically satirical Cabaret like no other, composed of the very fabric that created the American landscape. Considering the onset […]
Claus Mueller: (New York Correspondent at M21Entertainment, Paris, France)"Though I liked the film I did not cover it for our digital publications now reaching more than 200.000 international media professionals., The distribution parameter is too narrow even in the relatively small art / political film market. If the film had been edited down to the essentials it would have a better chance, […]
Executive Producer: Arnold Shvetsov. Produced by Alexander Arbit, Leonid Kopeykin and Alex Trubetskoy. Camera: Alexander Arbit and Leonid Kopeykin. Interviews conducted by Alex Trubetskoy. Editing: Sergio Voronin and Sound: Alex Voronin
"USED AND BORROWED TIME"Through a multi-dimensional microcosm, a disturbing parable on racial hatred "Used and Borrowed Time," written and directed by Sophia Romma Presented by Garden of the Avant-Garde Film and Theatrical Foundation in association with Reval Film Studio (Estonia) Color, Runtime 3:36 film's website: www.usedandborrowedtime.comVideo on demand: Amazon Prime, Apple TV and the Vyre Network.Reviewed […]
The film "Used and Borrowed Time" had its red carpet world premiere May 7, 2021 at Quad Cinema NYC. With live audience events finally able to return to New York art houses, "Used and Borrowed Time," written and directed by Sophia Romma, had its red carpet world premiere May 7 at Quad Cinema, 34 West […]
“Used and Borrowed Time,” is written and directed by Sophia Romma, is a non-conformist psychological thriller set in Birmingham, Alabama, both today and in the turbulent 1960’s. A blind, elderly Jewish woman recalls her ill-fated love affair with a Black civil rights activist during the civil rights upheaval of the Sixties. She is phantasmagorically transported […]
Bitter love, damaging passion and brutal lust fuels the tale of a romance between a beautiful peasant girl and a cunning aristocrat unraveling the madness of Russia’s class system of the 18th Century. See on Amazon
Directed by: Sophia Romma Running time: 3 hour 37 minutes Release date: May 7, 2021 (World Premiere - NYC Quad Theater) Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Social Issues, and Romance Distributor: Garden of the Avant-Garde in association with Revel Film (Estonia) In a film written and directed by Sophia Romma, a playwright, poet and director of theater, […]