The Tropic Sun and His Eyes (Soley Twopikal Ak Pitit Li)

Elisee Junior St Preux is a Haitian American Filmmaker & Actor born in Miami, FL.

A self-taught artist and business professional, Elisee is the owner of SOIL Pictures, who prides itself on rendering the highest form of nostalgia while using storytelling to uplift the Black and Caribbean experience both on and off the screen. 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, a Year 2 Rideback Rise Circle Inductee, an NBAF Emerging Artist Horizon Award Finalist, a WEG Feature Film Lab Fellow, a South Pitch Fellow of New Orleans Film Society, and a Netflix “Created By” Fellow where he held a script development deal to pen an original feature film with the studio.

Elisee’s ultimate mission involves changing the stigmatized depiction of Black & Caribbean boys and their fathers with a more loving, vulnerable image. Through explicit dreams, a fantastical vision, and pure nostalgia, Elisee’s goal is to share stories that reflect the present, honor the past, and reimagine the future.