TV GUIDE: Special Features Workshop feat. Letia Solomon

The art of cinematic language isn’t only reserved for big screen features and shorts. In recent years, serial programming has been finding its way back to the hearts of media lovers. There is a specific type of depth, nuance and audacity that can exist on the television screen that differs from theatrical releases. This creative difference has allowed many film directors to dip their toe into the episodic landscape, flexing their style, voice and commitment to a collective understanding of a serialized show. With this rising interest in television, we are hosting an artist talk with an Emerging Film Director, who has made her mark into the episodic landscape and proved that there is a best of both worlds.

Letia Solomon is an award-winning DGA director and producer and former Chemical engineer based in Los Angeles. She made her television directorial debut on Season 7 of ABC/Shondaland’s STATION 19 and was a fellow of the 2024 Disney CTDI Directing Program, Ryan Murphy’s HALF Initiative Program and Netflix’s 2023 Episodic Directors on the Rise Masterclass. Letia directed the coming of age pilot set on a HBCU campus, 3 BLIND MICE, which won Essence Film Festival’s 2024 Audience Choice Award for Best Indie Pilot and a comedic mockumentary short, CLONES, which won the 2022 Lionsgate/STARZ Award for Best Speculative Fiction Film. Her MFA thesis film from the University of Southern California, THE CYPHER, about a queer black rapper, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and ABFF HBO Competition. She then wrote and directed a medieval fantasy romcom THE QUEEN, THE KNIGHT, AND THE WITCH which was a finalist in the 2022 Tribeca x CHANEL Through Her Lens Program and is currently in post. Letia loves to tell bold stories for both film and television.