Letia Solomon
- Director
- Actress
- Producer
Letia Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She studied Chemical Engineering and worked as a Materials & Processing Engineer in Aerospace before pursuing her true calling of film. She also won the 2015 Modern Technology Leader Award from the National Black Engineer of the Year Award ceremony for her work at Raytheon Technologies. Letia received an MFA in TV & Film Production from the University of Southern California. Her thesis film, The Cypher, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, received USC's 2020 First Look Faculty Award for Outstanding Director, and the 2021 Pan African Film Festival Programmer's Choice Award for Best Short Film. She also was also an alumni of the CAA Moebius Film Festival. As a finalist of the 2020 ABFF HBO Competition, The Cypher is streaming on HBO MAX. She recently directed a coming of age independent pilot, 3 Blind Mice, set in Baltimore and won the 2022 Lionsgate/Starz Speculative Film award for directing the mockumentary comedy short film, Clones. Her steamy medieval comedy romance The Queen, The Knight, and The Witch received funding from the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival x CHANEL Through Her Lens Female Filmmaking Program in New York. Letia has a bold, visual style that champions edgy, heartfelt and comedic stories.
