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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0Evoke Entertainment<\/a> has signed Haitian American filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux<\/a>, whose debut feature\u00a0The Tropic Sun and His Eyes<\/em>\u00a0world premiered in Tribeca\u2019s Viewpoints section and earned a Special Jury Mention for Best New Narrative Director.<\/p>\n \n\tShot entirely in Haiti\u2019s northern Cap-Ha\u00eftien region,\u00a0The Tropic Sun and His Eyes<\/em>\u00a0follows a young man attempting to reconnect with his estranged father, guided by a street kid who becomes an unexpected companion. The Tribeca jury cited St. Preux\u2019s work for its emotional clarity, visual confidence, and the emergence of a distinct new directing voice.<\/p>\n \n\tSt. Preux previously premiered his short\u00a0Aurinko in Adagio<\/em>\u00a0at Tribeca and is an HBO Short Film Award recipient, Sundance Ignite Finalist, and NAACP Image Awards nominee. He is currently developing new narrative projects that continue his focus on diasporic identity, fatherhood, and culturally specific storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Evoke Entertainment has signed Haitian American filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux, whose debut feature\u00a0The Tropic Sun and His Eyes\u00a0world premiered in Tribeca\u2019s Viewpoints section and earned a Special Jury Mention for Best New Narrative Director. Shot entirely in Haiti\u2019s northern Cap-Ha\u00eftien region,\u00a0The Tropic Sun and His Eyes\u00a0follows a young man attempting to reconnect with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[487523,362163],"class_list":["post-2477137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-elisee-junior-st-preux","tag-evoke-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elisee-Junior-St-Preux-Signs-With-Evoke-Entertainment-EXCLUSIVE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477139,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477137\/revisions\/2477139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}