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 from Miami, FL. 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 currently holds a script development deal to pen an original feature film with the studio. Elisee is an Advisory Board member of the Morehouse Human Rights Film Festival, a brass jazz musician, a mental health advocate, and a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. With a distinct style of vintage storytelling combined with modern cinema, Elisee's solemn goal is to bear witness and share stories that reflect today, honor the past, and reimagine the future. Elisee is currently working on his debut feature film shooting in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. more...

Join the Discussion