Sol Tryon

Sol was born and raised on the southern coast of Maine. He received an Associate of Arts Degree from the International Film & TV Workshops in Rockport, Maine in 1998. In 2000 he began working with world renowned artist Shirin Neshat on her video installations. Sol produced his first feature film Bomb The System in 2002, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2003 and earned him a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. In 2005 while continuing his work with Shirin Neshat on her video art film, Zarin (Sundance Film Festival 2007) Sol executive produced the feature film Weapons, (Narrative Feature Competition, Sundance Film Festival 2007). The Living Wake, Sol's directorial debut starring Mike O'Connell, Jesse Eisenberg and Jim Gaffigan, premiered at the CineVegas Film Festival in June 2007 where he garnered the Heineken Red Star Award for "the most innovative and progressive filmmaker". The film also won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival 2007 and Comedic Vision Award at the Austin Film Festival 2007. In the fall of 2007, Sol produced the narrative feature film Explicit Ills about young love, drug addiction, poverty and activism in Philadelphia. The film, starring Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, and Naomie Harris, was executive produced by Jim Jarmusch, directed by Mark Webber and premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival where it won 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 also has three narrative feature films that he is attached to direct in varying stages of development: Kick The Can, a coming of age comedy adapted from the novel written by newsman Jim Lehrer; Wedding The Winterbottoms, a Meet the Parents meets Peter Pan in the world of The Royal Tenenbaums comedy about an eccentric family dealing with real life relationship issues; and Eggy a multi storyline intelligent comedy about life in a Catholic school in New Jersey. Sol married singer/actress Rebecca Comerford on December 28th, 2005 in Oaxaca, Mexico. They currently live in Brooklyn, New York.