Biography
Elisee Junior St Preux is a Haitian American Filmmaker and Actor born in North Miami Beach, 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.
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.
Elisee is the owner of the multimedia company, "A La MODE Films" for Black artists that us 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 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. Elisee obtained a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Technology and a minor in Theatre at Florida Atlantic University. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
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 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 in post-production for his debut feature film shot on land in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
