A Conversation With host Floyd Marshall Jr
Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 12 segments
Haitian American filmmaker Elisee Junior St Preux joins A Conversation With Floyd Marshall Jr. and Co-Host Okema T. Moore for a powerful discussion about independent filmmaking, Haitian identity…
Elisee Junior St PreuxGuest
Okema T. MooreHost
Floyd Marshall Jr.HostAnd honestly, now that I think about it, it was doing the films and then trying to put them out there as well.
I feel like earlier on, I was in this mindset of truly not caring about what people think.
It was like, well, if I'm in this era of trying something new on a higher level, because that was my biggest thing of like, okay, I've been in the arts, but how can I now really step into it and say, this is what I'm going to do.
Which kind of led me back after the feature, well, before the feature that led me to do this feature, because I ended up in a place where I felt like you get into the fellowships, you know, and then it starts to become a little bit, a little glamorous.
I'm going to say a little glamorous in the sense of you think, oh, things are just going to get made at the snap of the finger.
You think opportunities are just going to step to that door and go here just because you were over here.
And it's like, no, I had to step right back into that early mindset and say, if I need a crowdfunding for a feature, I'm going to crowdfund for feature.
Now, everyone's not going to crowdfund for a feature, but I know I got into this by crowdfunding like five times for five different shorts.
So I was like, all the things that i've been doing learned along the way it may look a little bit different trying to do it now so let me try to apply all the skills and the knowledge that i learned across amongst these years and try to apply it to doing a feature which was a beyond difficult process but it had to make me drop all if there was any little bit of ego that needed to go away you know it all needed to just go away in order to try to do the thing so yeah and i'm still in that place too still in that place yeah
nice um you said something that i think is important um you have crowdfunded successfully several times um and there's a lot of people that you know want to crowdfund they're not very good at it or they don't know how to do it or they did it once and it didn't happen so they don't do it again um How do you do it multiple times without seeming like you are using the world as your ATM versus I'm looking for support for my things? Because I know some folk, baby, they will cry out like.
Well, so the first five times I did it was so early on that it just looked like I just needed assistance.
I had a goal number, but the numbers were so, they were like 2,500, 5,000, which now that I think about it, it's like people are crowdfunding like 50K for shorts, you know? Oh,
And honestly, now that I think about it, it was doing the films and then trying to put them out there as well.
I feel like earlier on, I was in this mindset of truly not caring about what people think.
It was like, well, if I'm in this era of trying something new on a higher level, because that was my biggest thing of like, okay, I've been in the arts, but how can I now really step into it and say, this is what I'm going to do.
Which kind of led me back after the feature, well, before the feature that led me to do this feature, because I ended up in a place where I felt like you get into the fellowships, you know, and then it starts to become a little bit, a little glamorous.
I'm going to say a little glamorous in the sense of you think, oh, things are just going to get made at the snap of the finger.
You think opportunities are just going to step to that door and go here just because you were over here.
And it's like, no, I had to step right back into that early mindset and say, if I need a crowdfunding for a feature, I'm going to crowdfund for feature.
Now, everyone's not going to crowdfund for a feature, but I know I got into this by crowdfunding like five times for five different shorts.
So I was like, all the things that i've been doing learned along the way it may look a little bit different trying to do it now so let me try to apply all the skills and the knowledge that i learned across amongst these years and try to apply it to doing a feature which was a beyond difficult process but it had to make me drop all if there was any little bit of ego that needed to go away you know it all needed to just go away in order to try to do the thing so yeah and i'm still in that place too still in that place yeah
nice um you said something that i think is important um you have crowdfunded successfully several times um and there's a lot of people that you know want to crowdfund they're not very good at it or they don't know how to do it or they did it once and it didn't happen so they don't do it again um How do you do it multiple times without seeming like you are using the world as your ATM versus I'm looking for support for my things? Because I know some folk, baby, they will cry out like.
Well, so the first five times I did it was so early on that it just looked like I just needed assistance.
I had a goal number, but the numbers were so, they were like 2,500, 5,000, which now that I think about it, it's like people are crowdfunding like 50K for shorts, you know? Oh,
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