May 25, 2012 // Embarcadero Marina Park South, San Diego

Le Dîner à San Diego looked sort of like a wedding… with 1,200 brides. This pop-up dinner party required guests to wear white and bring their own chairs, victuals and libations. About 1,200 people took part in the feasting festivities, which were inspired by European events of a similar nature.

Look for another dinner picnic in the fall: ledinerasandiego.info/

Video portrait of ballet dancer Maxine Hupy for massive.tv. Video received over 10,000 views and was featured by Creative Control. Shot and edited by Taylor Soppe.

Video portrait of opera singer Laura Schatz for massive.tv. Shot and edited by Taylor Soppe.

Under the guidance of lecturers Beth Bennett and Steve James, A Dream Foreclosed was produced by 15 undergraduate students in the Television News Documentary course at the Medill School of Journalism. The documentary examines the foreclosure crisis in Chicago across a socioeconomic landscape and its effect on a cross-section of the population, including homeowners and renters. The film looks at how people are trying to get out of a bad situation or make a bad one better.

The film was selected to screen at the first Chicago United Film Festival at the Music Box Theater.

Created spring 2009.

Yo Soy Así is a 35-minute documentary following four Argentine, lesbian-identified women, as they recount their stories of coming-out, first loves, sex with women, overcoming prejudice and hopes for the future. The filmmakers hope to shed light on the complexities of lesbian life in Buenos Aires and how different generations of lesbian women have accepted their sexuality.

The film’s central characters are an 18-year-old who fears the rejection of her family, an activist in her thirties working to fight gender stereotypes and two women in their sixties who were the first lesbian women to receive a civil union. Their stories weave together in an intiimate journey through their individual struggles for a shared dream of acceptance.

PRODUCED BY // Jodi Savitz, Taylor Soppe, Joseph Stein
EDITED BY // Taylor Soppe
Director of Photography // Taylor Soppe