Nicole W. Solomon
Directing
Biography
Nicole Solomon was raised in Ithaca, New York. She has worked extensively in education and media production, frequently partnering with nonprofits and community organizations to make justice-oriented projects and teach empowerment through filmmaking. Nicole has a Masters’ in Film from City College of New York and currently teaches film production at SVA and BRIC. Her short film, Small Talk, enjoyed a successful festival run and won multiple awards, including the Golden Kleene Award from the Arse Electronika Festival on Sex and Tech, the first film to be given that honor. Since then she has directed the award-winning horror short Mare , the Joan of Arc segment of the Bring Us Your Women anthology project, historical drama Sanctuary (co-directed with Small Talk DP Jeanette Bears), and the vampire thriller It’s Normal, among music videos, PSAs, and other projects. In 2017 she was awarded the Mary Pickford Award for Women in the Art and Business of Film, and has served as a producer on projects ranging from campy horror film The Gaze for Congested Cat to the recent documentary Cat-astreophe for The New Yorker. She currently co-hosts and co-produces The Celluloid Mirror podcast with Sean Mannion and is in postproduction on her next film, Reveal.
Known For
Bring Us Your Women is an international anthology dedicated to women and the pursuit of divinity and freedom. The project seeks to tell existing and re-imagined stories of historic and mythical individuals, each presenting a message of humanity that transcends gender and religion.
Bring Us Your Women
Throughout the 1960's, gay bars served as havens for a marginalized queer community across the country. Frequent police raids and laws dictating women to wear three pieces of 'gender appropriate clothing' resulted in countless cases of police harassment, assault, and brutality. Sanctuary follows Meg and Abigail as they navigate their interaction and coping process after one such raid.
Sanctuary
A young phone sex operator named Al's career takes a strange turn as her more unpleasant clients begin dying under mysterious circumstances after speaking with her. Al is left with sudden, intense headaches after each incident, the likes of which she has never experienced before. Is this coincidence, or is she somehow causing these deaths? Al attempts to keep her grip on reality and enlists her best friend investigate--battling violent ex boyfriends and the horror of the service industry along the way
Small Talk
A mysterious VHS tape sends a young woman on quest to discover its maker, but she finds herself instead.
Meme
Will the witches complete the ritual?
Beneath the Black Moon
After a terrible date set up from her roommate, June is focused on enjoying her commutes around the city and beating the NYC summer heat. Although she's determined, one day June finds herself needing a helping hand from a familiar face in a city of millions. When her roommate follows up with another date idea, June already has plans.
Happenstance
Sean, an anxious and isolated man, goes about his mundane daily routine with a pleasant twist: an unexpected trip to sunny Brighton Beach. His desire to enjoy the gentle breeze, lapping waves, and sunny skies is put to the test as the beach itself seems to turn against him.
Mare
A young office worker checks in on a woman who has stopped attending their grief support group and must balance her desire to be a good friend with valuing her own safety.
It's Normal
A pregnant woman attends a baby shower thrown by her sister, but soon suspects something is off about the celebration.
Reveal
Bitten, a Tragedy follows Lydia, a Black queer woman living in Philadelphia. At a Philly rave, ancestral warfare wreaks havoc on the bloodline of an unfortunate partygoer, connecting Lydia to a world of blood, ritual, secrets, and vengeance.
Bitten, a Tragedy
Two young women work through their differences after a punk show with the help of a rubber ducky.