Leah Solmaz
The All Round Creative.
I’m Leah Solmaz, a British writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur. My career has taken me from independent film and performance to literature, marketing and building businesses. Different disciplines, connected by a lifelong commitment to storytelling and creative independence.
One person. Many creative chapters. Film, literature and business, all part of the same story.
Creativity has never belonged to just one part of my life.
A life in creative chapters.
I’ve never followed a particularly conventional career path. I spent more than a decade working in independent film, building my experience as an actress, writer, director and producer. That creative foundation eventually took me into marketing leadership, entrepreneurship and developing my own stories for the page.
Different disciplines. The same instinct to create something meaningful.
Where the story began.
More than a decade exploring performance, storytelling and independent filmmaking.
Learning the craft.
Acting workshop with Ashley Walters.
The people behind the picture.
Cast and crew of Theosight.
Independent Film
More than a decade working across acting, screenwriting, directing and producing, including a Best British Film win at the London Film Awards in 2014.
Writing & Stories
From screenplays to fiction, including my self-published novel Nexus and my historical novel Between Two Wars.
Building Businesses
From marketing leadership to founding Solmaz Marketing Ltd, with new ventures exploring the relationship between creativity, business and technology.
There’s always another chapter waiting to be written.
A decade
in front of
and behind
the camera.
Acting was where it started. Over more than a decade in independent film, I found my way into writing, directing and producing, discovering just how many ways there are to tell a story.
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INDEPENDENT CINEMA / THE ARCHIVE
Stories worth
bringing to life.
From early acting roles to co-writing and co-directing an award-winning feature, independent filmmaking became the foundation for everything that followed.
PERFORMANCE · SCREENWRITING · DIRECTING · PRODUCING
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Stories beyond
the screen.
Writing has always been part of my creative life. From screenplays and poetry to novels and short fiction, it’s a place to explore characters, ideas and stories without the boundaries of a film set.
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Between
Two Wars.
HISTORICAL FICTION / ROMANCE
A story of love, identity and the lives we are expected to lead. Set against the social conventions and changing world of twentieth-century Britain, Between Two Wars explores the relationship between two women whose lives become intertwined across the decades.
Other chapters.
Nexus.
My first self-published novel, and the beginning of a larger fictional world.
Rambling
Revelation.
A collection of poetry and personal reflections, currently being revisited for republication.
The Woods
Behind the Cabin.
A short horror story from my writing archive, exploring the unsettling things that wait beyond the familiar.
WORDS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PART OF THE STORY.
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Beyond
the expected.
Films, music, fiction and visual art. My creative interests have never belonged to one discipline, and some of my favourite projects have emerged simply from wanting to try something new.
A selection of the work, experiments and ideas that have shaped my creative journey.
Perception.
A short film from my independent filmmaking archive, reflecting my continued interest in visual storytelling and the creative possibilities of cinema.
Music & Sound.
Another outlet for storytelling, exploring atmosphere, expression and ideas through music.
Nexus.
My first self-published novel and an early step into building fictional worlds beyond the screen.
Beyond the Frame.
From visual art and sculpture to animation and other creative experiments, this is where the less conventional projects live.
The art of
building things.
My career eventually took me from film sets into marketing leadership, business strategy and entrepreneurship.
Building businesses has become another form of creativity, bringing together storytelling, problem-solving, technology and the determination to turn an idea into something real.
MARKETING / STRATEGY / BUSINESS GROWTH
Solmaz
Marketing.
I founded Solmaz Marketing Ltd in 2024, building an independent business that combines commercial strategy, creative thinking and specialist marketing expertise.
Today, the company provides outsourced marketing support to businesses across different industries and international markets, helping them connect marketing activity with measurable commercial growth.
Ideas in motion.
Orxytek.
An AI-powered sales and marketing operations platform I’m developing to help businesses connect their processes, data and outreach more intelligently.
Horrorfied.
A horror-inspired creative merchandise venture bringing together my longstanding interest in genre cinema, design and independent creative businesses.