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Sol was born and raised along Maine's southern coast. In 1998, he earned an Associate of Arts Degree from the International Film & TV Workshops in Rockport, Maine. By 2000, he began collaborating with renowned artist Shirin Neshat on her video installations.
In 2002, Sol produced his debut feature film Bomb The System, which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and earned him a Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Continuing his work with Shirin Neshat on her video art film Zarin (which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival), Sol also executive produced the feature film Weapons, featured in the Narrative Feature Competition at Sundance 2007.
Sol made his directorial debut with The Living Wake, starring Mike O'Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, and Jim Gaffigan. The film premiered at the CineVegas Film Festival in June 2007, where he received the Heineken Red Star Award for "most innovative and progressive filmmaker." It also won the Audience Award at the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival and the Comedic Vision Award at the 2007 Austin Film Festival. Later that year, Sol produced Explicit Ills, a narrative feature exploring themes of young love, drug addiction, poverty, and activism in Philadelphia. Starring Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, and Naomie Harris, the film was executive produced by Jim Jarmusch, directed by Mark Webber, and premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival, winning the Narrative Feature Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography.
Currently, Sol is co-producing two feature-length documentaries with Mangusta LAFCO: 2012 Time For Change and Being In The World. He is also attached to direct three narrative feature films in various stages of development: Kick The Can, a coming-of-age comedy adapted from the novel by journalist Jim Lehrer; Wedding The Winterbottoms, a comedy blending Meet the Parents and Peter Pan in the style of The Royal Tenenbaums, centered on an eccentric family navigating real-life relationship challenges; and Eggy, a multi-storyline intelligent comedy about life in a New Jersey Catholic school.
Sol married singer and actress Rebecca Comerford on December 28, 2005, in Oaxaca, Mexico. They currently reside in Brooklyn, New York.
