{"id":2477267,"date":"2026-06-26T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2477267"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:17:45","slug":"evoke-entertainment-signs-tribeca-honored-filmmaker-elisee-junior-st-preux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/evoke-entertainment-signs-tribeca-honored-filmmaker-elisee-junior-st-preux\/","title":{"rendered":"Evoke Entertainment Signs Tribeca-Honored Filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0Evoke Entertainment has signed Haitian American filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux, whose debut feature\u00a0<em>The 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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shot entirely in Haiti\u2019s northern Cap-Ha\u00eftien region,\u00a0<em>The 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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_2leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_2leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_2leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_4leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_4leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_4leahlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">St. Preux previously premiered his short\u00a0<em>Aurinko in Adagio<\/em>\u00a0at Tribeca and is an HBO Short Film Award recipient, Sundance Ignite Finalist, and NAACP Image Awards nominee. 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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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477268,"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":[325496,487541],"class_list":["post-2477267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-tribeca","tag-tropic-sun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Evoke-Entertainment-Signs-Tribeca-Honored-Filmmaker-Elisee-Junior-St-Preux.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477267","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=2477267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477269,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477267\/revisions\/2477269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}