Sol was born and raised on the southern coast of Maine, where he would later go on to receive an Associate of Arts Degree from the International Film & TV Workshops in Rockport, Maine in 1998.
He began his career in the film industry by working with world-renowned artist Shirin Neshat on her video installations in 2000.
Sol produced his first feature film, Bomb The System, in 2002, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 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, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, Sol executive produced the feature film Weapons, which was also part of the Narrative Feature Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.
Sol's directorial debut, The Living Wake, premiered at the CineVegas Film Festival in June 2007, where he received the Heineken Red Star Award for "the most innovative and progressive filmmaker". The film also won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2007 and the Comedic Vision Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2007.
In the fall of 2007, Sol produced the narrative feature film Explicit Ills, which was about young love, drug addiction, poverty, and activism in Philadelphia. The film starred Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, and Naomie Harris and 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 is also attached to direct three narrative feature films: Kick The Can, a coming-of-age comedy adapted from the novel written by newsman Jim Lehrer; Wedding The Winterbottoms, a 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.
