Story! This Baba / Тази баба

[sonia]

This Baba / Тази баба "This Grandmother," a half-hour video about Penka Encheva made in 2014.

This film is a story of one grandma who was an extraordinary traditional singer as a young woman in her native country of Bulgaria. She had dreams becoming a professional singer, but her path led her to become a teacher instead. In 2010. At age of 67, she come to America to live with her daughter’s family and help care for her two young grandsons. Penka’s is a universal story of grandmothers from every country across the globe who are divided between here and there, isolated by a lack of English, stuck in suburbs, missing their friends and loved ones back home. However, Penka found new life with a choir, Bulgarian Voices of Seattle, and is now making her dreams come true.

Produced by Mary Sherhart
Directed by Bogdan Darev
Featuring Penka Encheva

In Bulgarian language with integrated English subtitles.

I saw Penka sing as part of the release of this movie, but I haven't seen the movie. They recently posted it to youtube. Saving it here because I don't have time to watch it right now, and I want to get back to it.