1. Your film Used and Borrowed Time won 2nd Best Feature Film/Best Experimental Film and Honorable Mention for Director of a Feature Film. How was the film inspired? In an effort to shed light on an all too horrid and common practice of shameful racism and segregation in the 1960’s, and amid the unjust enactment […]
Film has its own language and Dr. Sophia Romma can speak that language in spades. This film is a true experiment with phantasma coupled with neo-realism. USED AND BORROWED TIME appears to depict magic realism with the wave of a wand that leaves its mark upon the history of cinema. The narrative of the film […]
Used and Borrowed Time is a 2020 film about an aging actress who is magically returned to the year 1965 in segregated Alabama. Once there she is forced to relive the horrible events created by a violent and merciless white supremacist family due to her love affair with a well spoken African American civil rights advocate, […]
Experienced author and director Sophia Romma told us a very contemporary and touching story in her experimental feature film USED AND BORROWED TIME. The story is about Eva Gold’s life (present and past) and about her journey in a racist reality that persecuted her whole life, especially her love story with an African American guy […]
Screenwriter/Playwright/Theatre and Film Director, Dr. Sophia Romma is the screenwriter and producer of the Garnet Grand Prix Award-Winning international art-house motion-picture, Poor Liza, starring Emmy Award-Winning and three-time Golden Globe winning actor, Ben Gazzara and Obie, two-time Emmy and Academy Award-Winning actress, Lee Grant. Poor Liza, directed by the émigré cult director of Liquid Sky, […]
We have sublime news! Used and Borrowed Time is a winner in the Creation International Film Festival. Please check out the in depth review of our film, below: When I was asked to write a review for Used and Borrowed Time, I read the synopsis and thought it sounded cool. It's a period piece and I […]
‘Used and Borrowed Time’ is set during the turbulent 1960’s, in segregated Alabama and based on an unfortunate sadistic racist incident from American history. With numerous racism and antisemitism occurrences happening across the world, this story is as relevant as ever. In the film Eva, an aging eccentric blind woman, is phantasmagorically transported to her […]
“There’s not a poor jew. They control media, show business, airlines”. "Chinese are everywhere, taking everything". These are two of the lines of the beginning of the experimental movie USED AND BORROWED TIME by Sophia Romma. The imprint is therefore clear since the very beginning. Racism and bias are the themes of the movie, eviscerated […]