"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. His editing credits include two films about the work in Iraq, The Blood of My Brother, and When Adnan Comes Home. His most recent work, Four Seasons Lodge, about a community of Holocaust survivors in the Catskill Mountains, will be entering the festival circuit in 2008. As of the spring of 2008, he's working with D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on their follow-up to The War Room.

Aaron recently finished his third short documentary in support of the non-profit organization Jewish Helping Hands. After a trip to Cambodia, he made If I Can Survive, about the Cambodian genocide and two Cambodians efforts to rebuild their society in its distant wake. Four Months Later follows a volunteer group to New Orleans four months after Katrina and The Gospel of Propane explores suburban homelessness in New Jersey. These shorts, and samples of longer works are 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.