Women We Admire: Tatiana Bacchus

Please give us four words that describe you:

Love, empathetic, courageous, powerful. 

What was your first job? 

Mother's Helper

What do you do now? 

Actor and Independent Filmmaker

What are you reading/watching now? 

Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim and Hallmark movies for research 

What inspires you? 

The world builders, risk takers and the people who love full out with the intent of making the world equitable, inclusive and healthy for all - now and for future generations. 

What is one intention you have for the next three months? 

To meet each moment with my head up and my eyes and heart open.

About Tatiana

Tatiana Bacchus, Tide Risers Member and Executive Director of Teaspoon & Pound Media, LLC, is an emerging independent filmmaker who curates the ancestral wisdom of invisible characters by telling their untold stories.

Tatiana is currently working on her first feature documentary, Freedom Denied, which posthumously tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Edvard Pierre’s five-year-long battle for political asylum in the United States, as told by the attorneys and community activists who fought for his freedom. Her documentary short, Porches, offered five elder African-American women in the Philadelphia area a platform to share their unique, inspiring stories. Porches continues to air on MiND TV and PhillyCAM.

As a freelance producer, Tatiana has production managed shoots at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Mütter Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. She served as both production manager and assistant director for the short film Musée Fantastique, for which she worked alongside Director of Photography Svetlana Cvetko (Inside Job, 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary) and managed a crew from Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles. Tatiana has also produced artist videos for the Leeway Foundation and Entrepreneur Works, and documented performances of Pasión y Arte for the First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival.

A working actress for over a decade appears as Hope Brown in the PBS pilot episode of Alan Alda’s Brains on Trial which broadcast in September of 2013.

Tatiana received a B.A. in Psychology from Temple University. Her production experience was learned on the job and her inspiration comes from life. She continues to hone her technical expertise, recently achieving certification in editing, field production, studio crew and studio production at PhillyCAM. Tatiana is a Leeway Art and Change Grant Recipient and continues her life's work as a filmmaker, producer, and performing artist.