Director
Loosely based on Igor Stravinsky’s ballet, Fire Bird Spectacular was performed as the opening show for 2018 Ignite Fire Flow conference, fire dancers, fire fx and a fire puppet engulfed the night.
Producer
A humorous, fun and provocative installation expanding the mythology of Tender Claws' soon to be released tendar app. The installation combines environmental storytelling, AR and emotion/face recognition technology. The star of the experience is your AI app guide, a fish-like creature who becomes increasingly sentient and amusingly analyzes the partners collaborating in the experience, their emotions and the world around them. The tendar installation consists of two parts: a sleek booth representing the fictional emotional scanning service: TendAR and an 8 minute version of our intimate, 2 player cooperative AR experience.
Producer
Virtual virtual reality (VVR) is a three hour narrative game that directly responds to contemporary issues and debates around how the advancement of A.I. and VR are shaping our society and the way we work: gig economy, virtual labor, outsourcing. The game playfully winks at the lines between simulation/real, prefab/free will and human/artificial.
VVR was created by Indie studio Tender Claws with the support of Google Daydream.
Available now on Rift, Oculus Go, Gear VR, Steam, Viveport and Daydream
AWARDS
Google Play Awards 2017 Best VR Experience
"International Mobile Gaming Awards 2018" Best VR Game and Excellence in Audio
"Raindance Film Festival 2017" Best Mobile Interactive Experience
"Future of StoryTelling 2017" Finalist, People's Choice Award
"Unity Awards 2017" Finalist, Best VR Game
"IndieCade 2017" Official Nominee
"Vision VR/AR Awards 2017 " Finalist, Best Game
"VR Awards Shortlist 2017" Finalist, VR Game of the Year
Director/Writer
Waiting (Scenes from a lonely planet) is a 360° music video shot with the GoPro Odyssey and produced by JoltVR
Director/Writer
Originally commissioned for the Art Exhibit THE FUCHUR: A 22nd Century Cultural Retrospective hold at the Think Tank Gallery in DTLA, Étienne is a 360- degree short that puts the viewer in first person point of view as an observer in a park where not so ordinary things start to happen; at the end the viewer discovers he is not just an observer.
Co-Director
Aloud performs an acoustic version of "Falling Out of Love" at the Old LA Zoo.
Shot and directed by Tanya Leal-Soto and Charles Newman
Producer
The Wicked Kind is a 360 VR Music Experience inspired by the cult classic Tron for the Cuban-American Rock band Aloud.
Tanya started working in Films in Mexico City and ten years ago moved to Los Angeles to work for Academy Award winner Actor Forest Whitaker's production company where she oversaw multiple projects from development to post production.
In 2017 Tanya co-wrote a 10 episode series for Televisa Foundation, that has the goal of raising awareness among young Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology.
Tanya directed a sci-fi short called “The Salt Fields" which was part of the official selection of the 2016 Raw Science Film Festival. She is also the producer of the award-winning documentary Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Director
"E is for Edward" was performed at the 2016 Edwardian Ball at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.
Rod, shadow and life size puppets together with smoke effects, a piano player and an opera singer telling the story of Edward Gory’s creatures.
PEDALBUMP aka Pedal Powered Bumper cars, was an interactive installation taken to Burning Man from 2013 to 2015 under a big top tent.
Created by: Tanya Leal Soto
Pedalbump Team: Zak Knight, Kevin Bourque, Sarah Firefly, Shawn ChikAdee
Special Thanks to everyone at The Red Nose District
