About this submission
This film is a love letter to my childhood. I was raised by a family of musicians and as soon as I claimed my instrument of choice, I fell in love. However, mastering it was a challenge of it's own and my father insisted on not settling for less. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to attend music school, so in this film, our lead character does. This story is a combination of true events, intertwined with fictional, while depicting what it looks and feels like to be lost in the music.
Creator
Elisee Junior St Preux is a Haitian-American Filmmaker born in Miami, FL.
A self-taught artist and pure cinephile, Elisee deliberately studied the art of cinema through books, newspapers, articles, and documentaries. Elisee is a Season 1 Director of Indeed's Rising Voices partnered with Hillman Grad Productions, a 53rd NAACP Image Awards nominee, a Sundance Ignite Finalist, an HBO Short Film Award recipient at the American Black Film Festival, an NBAF Emerging Artist Horizon Award Finalist, a WEG Feature Film Lab Fellow, and a Netflix "Created By" Fellow where he held a script development deal to pen an original feature film with the studio.
Elisee is the owner of the multimedia company, "À La MODE Films" for Black artists that use the power of storytelling to uplift the Black experience on and off the screen. He is the creator of “RATED BLACK”, a film event series in Atlanta, GA that celebrates and preserves the rich legacy of vintage Black cinema and brings together different generations.
In front of the camera, Elisee has appeared on networks such as Disney +, National Geographic, Telemundo, and BET, as well as commercials for Disney's EPCOT, Verizon, AT&T, and U Health.
In addition to his creative work, Elisee is an Advisory Council member of the Morehouse Human Rights Film Festival, a brass musician, a community youth educator, and a mental health advocate.
With a distinct style of vintage storytelling combined with modern cinema, Elisee insists on being a change agent in society to alter the way people imagine the future from a humane perspective. One of his ultimate missions involve changing the stigmatized depiction of Black boys and their fathers with a more loving, vulnerable image. He believes that storytelling has the power to heal people. For this reason, he brings core themes in his films to the community to spark conversation, promote unity, and empower the youth. Ultimately designing his content through explicit dreams, fantastical perception, and pure nostalgia, Elisee's solemn goal is to bear witness and share stories that reflect today, honor the past, and reimagine the future.
Elisee is currently in post-production for his debut feature film shot on land in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. more...