"The Digital Media Center for the Arts provided an encouraging place to experiment, and fail, with my films. More importantly, though, the DMCA staff provided creative and technical support that pushed me to try what no one else was trying and to learn what no one else was teaching me."

Aaron Soffin, Film Studies 2004

Since graduating, Aaron has worked as a director and editor, primarily in documentary. Working with 150 hours of footage Andrew Berends shot in Iraq in 2004, Aaron cut two feature documentaries, The Blood of My Brother, and When Adnan Comes Home. After a successful festival run, The Blood of My Brother opened in US theaters in the summer of 2006. When Adnan Comes Home premiered in the US at SxSW in the spring of 2007.

Aaron also directs his own work, including a short web documentary about the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and The Same Moon, a 50-minute film about an American aid group's interaction with AIDS and AIDS orphans in Ethiopia. Samples of these films, as well as the rest of his work, is available on his website: www.soffinfilms.com.

Aaron graduated from Yale, with a BA in film studies, where he studied under D.A. Pennebaker and interned with Al Maysles. He was awarded the Howard R. Lamar prize for best senior film, for The Same Moon. He currently resides in New York City.