About Us
Rafael Roy and Kelin Verrette create cinematic non-fiction films through intimate, handheld camerawork and expertise across multiple disciplines in the documentary field. They founded All Solid Things shortly after getting married in 2018, and have worked on documentary shorts, features and series--as well as directing and shooting advertisement, corporate and commercial work.
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Rafael (he/him), a native New Yorker and former editorial photographer, studied documentary filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He is the Director of Photography for the upcoming Nat Geo docuseries Legends, and the MTV Docs short film, I am Ready, Warden (Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins). He has contributed camerawork on several critically-acclaimed films, including Anthem by Emmy Award winning director, Peter Nicks (Tribeca Film Festival 2023). He was a co-producer and cinematographer on the feature length documentary, Lady Buds, which premiered at Hot Docs 2021.
Kelin (she/her) began making documentary films after a career in archaeology and museum work. Born and raised in South Louisiana, she entered the craft through editing the short documentary, Cipher, which premiered at the SF Dance Film Festival in 2018, and the 2020 narrative short film, The Women. She is a highly versatile and experienced cameraperson, sound recordist and producer, most recently working as Story Producer on Family Tree, directed by Peabody Award winning filmmaker, Jennifer MacArthur (Whose Streets) and as Co-Producer for I am Ready, Warden, by Academy-Award nominated director, Smriti Mundhra (Saint Louis Superman).
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Since founding their production company, they have worked extensively as a two-person field team, their work can be seen on the Emmy-nominated series, Through Our Eyes. They provided two-camera coverage for Academy-Award winning director Ellen Goosenberg-Kent on her 2021 feature length film, Rebuilding Hope: The Children of 9/11. Kelin was the Assistant Editor and Rafael was cinematographer on the 2021 Tribeca Audience Award winning-film, Ferguson Rises (directed by Mobolaji Olambiwonnu).
They are currently producing and editing, Forty One, a verite documentary about the first platoon of women to train at the historically all-male Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California.
