Letia Solomon
Directing
Biography
Letia Solomon is an award-winning African American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from the University of California Riverside with a degree in Chemical Engineering and worked as a Materials Engineer in Aerospace before transitioning into a career of film. She began acting at Choice Skinner's Breaking Through Actor's Workshop before she wrote and directed "Elevate," which won for Best Student Film in the 2017 Philadelphia Independent Film Awards. To provide a platform for other talented filmmakers, Letia Co-Founded the African World Film Festival with Lights Up Entertainment in Detroit, MI in 2016. She graduated from USC's School of Cinematic Arts with a MFA in TV & Film Production and received the award for Outstanding Director of USC's 2020 First Look Faculty Awards. Her thesis film, The Cypher, was nominated for the Best Student Film at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, featured in CAA's 2020 Moebius Short Film Showcase, and included in the 2020 ABFF HBO Competition. Letia is committed to directing and producing, film, television and music videos that continue to uplift the voices of underrepresented communities.
Known For
After an underdog programmer finds out his beloved robot girlfriend is going to expire, he must connect the pieces of clues from her broken mysterious memories to save her life against all odds.
Expiration
With his reputation and a potential record deal on the line, Khalil confronts his opponent Yung Reap and defends his secret during a freestyle competition.
The Cypher
By the year 2186 humans have spread across the Solar System, colonizing the distant moons of Jupiter. Alyson Spenser is an astrophysicist, caught between her deep attachment to the beauty and magic of her work, and the voices—internal as well as external—that tell her to focus on what is practical, on the here and now. Alyson does her best to toe this party line, but she finds it a struggle. And then, something wondrous happens. She discovers a strange meteorite, and when she reaches down and touches it, she is instantaneously transported onto a spaceship in orbit high over Earth. The captain of the vessel is a streetwise smuggler from Jupiter named Anora Dane. Alyson finds her strange and frightening, yet she also glows with a vibrancy of spirit Alyson had nearly forgotten was possible. Faced with a reality she only ever half allowed herself to dream of, Alyson must choose where she belongs, following Anora to Ganymede, or returning to Earth.
The Rock and the Stars
Naeemah, a young Black woman who was adopted by a White couple and raised in an all White environment in Massachusetts, makes an effort to learn more about her past by transferring to an Historical Black College in Baltimore. Upon arriving, she meets two young Black women who help guide her during her transition and who face life at different phases... There's no manual for that---it's the blind leading the blind.
3 Blind Mice
90 days after breaking up, Makeba and Che catch up over dinner and drinks at what used to be their favorite restaurant. They both secretly hope for reconciliation; but are more interested in closure and understanding why things fell apart.
Exit Interview
1951, Mexico City. After synthesizing the main component of the contraceptive pill, young scientist Luis Miramontes deals with the religious and personal consequences of his groundbreaking invention.