Cynthia Gauthier Is Breaking Monster Truck Stereotypes One Thrill at a Time

Speaking with Cynthia Gauthier immediately breaks all preconceptions of who monster-truck drivers are or can be. And it isn’t because she’s a woman: Any ’80s child who watched the cartoon Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and witnessed the antics of twin sisters Red and Redder knows that ladies are as capable of driving heavy machinery as well as any musclebound man.

Director Tod Lending Premieres the Resilient Saul & Ruby, to Life! at Miami Jewish Film Festival

Nearly a century onward from the Holocaust, filmmaker Tod Lending figured every story about the atrocity that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews had already been told. That was until he heard about Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz. The two, who reside in South Florida, survived the religious persecution of the Nazi regime and went on to form a klezmer act the Holocaust Survivor Band 70 years later.