Sol Productions is a documentary film production studio based in Washington, DC. Sol has produced three highly-acclaimed documentary films on four continents, covering elections in Venezuela, Senegal, and France. Our work has appeared in major film festivals around the world, including the Montreal International Film Festival, the Boston International Film Festival, and the Sarasota International Film Festival. The three films, ¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak?, Democracy in Dakar, and Democracy in Paris have enjoyed both popular backing and the embrace of the academic world.

Democracy in Dakar chronicles the role of hip-hop musicians in Senegalese national politics. It has been the subject of a special panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, and in January the Smithsonian screened the film at the National Museum of African Art during official celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration. It was also screened as part of United Nations Week in New York, and received the "Media that Matters" award from Al Gore's Current TV. The film has also been discussed in special screenings at Harvard, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins, among many other universities.

¿Puedo Hablar? / May I Speak? examines contemporary Venezuelan politics through the lens of the 2006 presidential elections. The film has been fodder for debate and dialogue on campuses from Cambridge to, well, Cambridge, playing both at the famed British campus and to a full house at Harvard University's Rockefeller Center in an event co-organized by the Kennedy School of Government. Critically acclaimed by both Chavez sympathizers and opponents, it was also the subject of a special panel discussion at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. The film has been reviewed by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and Teaching Sociology, and has screen at over eighty-five colleges and universities throughout forty-four U.S. states and six countries.

In all, our films have been screened at over one hundred and twenty colleges and universities around the globe and at film festivals in more than fifteen countries--from Sweden and Italy to Uganda and Japan.

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1329 10th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
(603) 573-5556

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Sol Productions
1329 10th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
(603) 573-5556

Sol Productions operates in two principal capacities. As a registered S-Corporation, Sol Productions in Venezuela, Inc., we produced and published ¿Puedo Hablar? in 2007. Under the non-profit Sol Productions Foundation we own and operate the Democracy in Dakar and Democracy in Paris series.