Steve Solot
Associate for Latin America
Steve joined SPI in 2020. From his base in Brazil, he focuses primarily on LATAM clients in the screen and creative industries, as well as workforce training, production incentives, and overall strategies to guide public policy and government agencies to create strategies to stimulate expansion in the short and long-term.
Steve has a distinguished career as Senior Vice President of Latin American Operations for the Motion Picture Association (MPA) between 1995 and 2008; seven years as president of the Rio Film Commission; founder of the Brazil Film Commission Network; and ten years as President of the Latin American Training Center-LATC – a regional audiovisual consulting, training and publishing centre, which has expanded to countries outside of Latin America under the Global Audiovisual Training Center-GATC banner.
Most recently he served for two years as Latin American production policy manager for Netflix, where he supported a team focused on incentive management, workforce capacity development and infrastructure as part of the company’s public policy objectives in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, working fluently in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Steve brings with him over 20 years of experience with public policy, with ministries of culture, economy and tourism, film institutes, trade associations and guilds throughout Latin America, Spain and Portugal. He has lived and worked in Chile, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
In addition to managing workforce training programs throughout Latin America his recent publications include: Current Financing Mechanisms for Audiovisual Content in Latin America, 3rd Edition (LATC-2017); Audiovisual Sector Incentives and Public Policy in Selected Latin American Countries (Chapter 3 in A Companion to Latin American Cinema. Wiley-Blackwell, London-2017); and A Guide for Film Commissions in Latin America (LATC-2016).
Steve is also Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), part of Dentons Global Advisors, a global strategy and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, DC.