ALICIA SOLLER (she/her) is an Emmy Award-nominated producer and cinematographer based in Chicago. Of the Filipinx diaspora, Alicia’s personal work as a filmmaker explores identity, history, memory, and intergenerational healing through the lens of the personal and intimate. She seeks solidarity, solace, and humanity through storytelling, unearthing stories at the margins and the beauty of our lived experiences through meditative imagery and oral history.
Her film Of the Heart (2023), a personal essay film that reveals the spiritual and ancestral threads that connect mother and daughter, was an Official Selection at the San Diego Filipino Film Festival, Boston Short Film Festival, and the Novella Film Festival. Alicia is also an Associate Producer on several WTTW/PBS Chicago Stories documentaries, including The Young Lords of Lincoln Park, Deadly Alliance: Leopold and Loeb, House Music: A Cultural Revolution, and the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award nominated The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants.
She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media at Northwestern University and Bachelor of Science in Journalism at the University of Florida. Alicia also works as a Marketing Coordinator for Mezcla Media Collective, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to supporting women and non-binary filmmakers of color in the Midwest.
Let’s collaborate:
solleralicia@gmail.com