Nia T. Hill
Founder & CEO
Visionary Media Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur and industry leader, Nia T. Hill has founded and led ventures across media, tech, and lifestyle—including The Solstice Group and Strange Fruit Films—building companies that elevate narratives and reimagine how audiences experience content. Under Strange Fruit, she successfully negotiated partnerships with major studios including Paramount and DreamWorks, developing content slates that aligned with both creative ambition and commercial strategy. She also created the groundbreaking exhibition model The Momentum Experience in partnership with Will Smith, and Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, pioneering a new form of bespoke theatrical film distribution/exhibition.
An award-winning writer, producer, and director, Hill is known for her incisive voice and interdisciplinary vision across film, television, music, opera, and live events. She crafts stories that explore cultural identity, spiritual inquiry, and social transformation. Her work blends emotional depth with intellectual rigor to create experiences that resonate across generations and platforms.
While executive producing the acclaimed television competition series, Sunday Best, she won an NAACP IMAGE AWARD, as well as a GRAMMY AWARD for co-writing the hit song, Jesus, performed by Le’Andria Johnson.
Hill later became the creative director for ten- time Grammy winner and musical icon, Chaka Khan, leading the artist’s studio projects and producing concerts with major philharmonic orchestras around the world.