An interview with Sophia Romma | USED AND BORROWED TIME | VMA20 BEST INDIE FEATURE | November Edition It is a gloomy day at the Birmingham Autumn Fair in present-day Alabama and Eva Gold, an eccentric blind Jewish actress from New York is roaming about, craving apple pies that are spiked with transcendental magical properties. After accidentally stumbling upon a mystical Romani Sorceress’s […]
Would you tell us about how it started for you? When did you become interested in cinema? Tell us about your first experiences, what did you work on before making Used and Borrowed Time? Cinema is a lurid way of expression. Nonetheless film can also immerse one in the cherry oaky colors of wine and […]
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, […]
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, […]