Lauren Soldano

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Lauren Soldano in a composed self portrait staring directly into the camera nonchalantly while seated, holding a cigarette in one hand. They are wearing a plaid shirt with rolled sleeves on top of a graphic t-shirt. A vase of yellow flowers is on the table beside them, and a small photo is on the wall in the background. The faded purple-and-green lighting or editing techniques give the image a vintage feel.

Lauren Soldano in a composed self portrait staring directly into the camera nonchalantly while seated, holding a cigarette in one hand. They are wearing a plaid shirt with rolled sleeves on top of a graphic t-shirt. A vase of yellow flowers is on the table beside them, and a small photo is on the wall in the background. The faded purple-and-green lighting or editing techniques give the image a vintage feel.

Job title
director   producer   writer   filmmaker  
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genderqueer   queer  
Places of practice

Oakland, California, United States of America

Born

Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America ()

Location

Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America

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Lauren Soldano in a composed self portrait staring directly into the camera nonchalantly while seated, holding a cigarette in one hand. They are wearing a plaid shirt with rolled sleeves on top of a graphic t-shirt. A vase of yellow flowers is on the table beside them, and a small photo is on the wall in the background. The faded purple-and-green lighting or editing techniques give the image a vintage feel.
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Biography

Lauren Soldano lives in a small town near the very bottom left corner of Ohio: a backwoods-y twilight zone between Kentucky and Indiana where reassurance that “Hell Is Real” lines highways, streets are paved with roadkill and a pervasive sense of uniquely Midwestern nihilism roams free.Soldano spent their formative filmmaking years in the Bay Area where they made lots of cool stuff with lots of cool people, like Camp Butchinson (2012) and But I’m A Genderqueer (2010). Those magical Californian gayby years even included becoming one of the curatorial/creative minds behind Periwinkle Cinema. They miss the Periwinkle crew desperately, but still collaborate with them in their wildest teleportation telepathy fantasies.

Q, C. “Hanky Code: The Movie.” Queer Cultural Center, March 11, 2015. https://queerculturalcenter.org/hankycode/.

Hello! My name is Lauren and I am a queer/genderqueer writer and filmmaker living in Oakland. I left my midwestern life of Waffle House waitressing behind a few years ago to finish school here in the Bay, where I quickly realized my life's calling was to make videos showcasing upapologetic displays of queerness, bitchiness, and true love(s) in a magic kind of way, not a one-true-love and then "The End" kind of way.

Indiegogo. “Funding for Camp Butchinson to Pay Actors and Crew!” Accessed April 9, 2023. http://www.indiegogo.com/butchcamp.
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