Founded in 2020, Palodeon is the inventive muse of husband and wife co-creatives, Sol Tryon and Rebecca Comerford.

A multi-award winning independent film and music production company headquartered in Ojai California and working worldwide, Palodeon combines the talents of filmmaker Tryon with the expertise of writer and musician, Comerford to usher original content that both inspires and explores the human condition through cinema and music.

 

Tryon holds multiple prizes from top festivals and Independent Spirit Awards for his narrative features and documentaries, which have garnered theatrical releases across the US and abroad. Such films include critically acclaimed Bomb The System, Weapons, Explicit Ills, Starlet, Monogamish, Weed The People, The Reunited States, The Living Wake, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan, Ann Dowd and Mike O’Connell and his latest feature, Land of Dreams, official selection at the 2021 Venice Film Festival.

 

Comerford is best known for her work as a singer and composer. As a concert soloist she has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall/Lincoln Center, The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, Symphony Space, Alhambra Theater Spain, Spoleto Music Festival Italy, and the Aspen Music Festival. As an opera director, her modern adaptation of Hans Krasa's Brundibár, for both Opera Santa Barbara and Ojai Youth Opera was described as both "spellbinding and historic," garnering much praise and sell out performances at the Lobero Theatre and Ojai's Libbey Bowl. Her electronic chamber opera, for which she wrote the original music and libretto, Nightingale and the Tower received its world premiere in May of 2019. She has appeared in multiple feature films as both a singer and actor and her original songs and orchestrations are featured in Land of Dreams.