Frosty's Flava Magazine AUG-SEP- 2019 URBAN FILM FESTIVAL EDITION | Page 55

Reyes, Dean Norris,
Kevin Rankin, Jason
Antoon, Suleka Mathew
and Franka Potente. and
is the Producer/ Star of
the movie Rattlesnakes.
His Acting Credits
Includes:
Tears of the Sun (Bruce
Willis), Phat Girlz
(Mo’Nique), NBC Hit
show Heroes, CW Show
Arrow, CBS Extant with
Oscar winner Halle
Berry Produced by
Steven Spielberg.
More recently, he was
part of the cast of Joy
with Jennifer Lawrence,
Bradley Cooper and
Robert DeNiro directed
by David O Russell and
a regular on the TV
Show Claws for TNT.
His most important role
to date is playing the
title character in TOUS-
SAINT LOUVERTURE
and won BEST ACTOR
at the Pan African Film
Festival. Jimmy was
also nominated BEST
ACTOR at the Africa
Movie Academy Awards
in 2012.
With an international
appeal, Jimmy has been
working in many parts
of the world including
France, England,
Indonesia, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico… making
full use of his fluency in 5 languages: English,
French, Spanish, Italian, and Creole.
Jimmy Jean-Louis Co-founded the Los Angeles
based Production Company Jet Media
Production in 2008.
His producing credits include the documentary
films Haiti 16:53 (2010) Jimmy Goes to Nollywood
(2015) and the feature film Everything But A Man
(2018) Directed by Nnegest Likke (Phat Girlz).
He also produced the neo-noir psychological
thriller Rattlesnake’s
(2019), Directed by Julius Amedume.
Jimmy is the Executive Producer of the movies:
The Cursed One (2015), The Empty Box (2016)
and Desrances (2019) which could open at TIFF
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this September.
Jet Media currently has 2
documentaries in post-
production.
Jimmy goes to Tropico and
Jimmy goes to Babiwood and
a handful of feature films in
pre-production, including
Mother Water with director
Julius Amedume.
After a 7.0 Earthquake
devastated Haiti on January
12th, 2010,
Jimmy expanded his
humanitarian work to provide
immediate relief to the
victims of the earthquake.
He joined forces with the
Pan American Development
Foundation and the
Organization of American
States.
HUFH-PADF-OAS and its
partners provided support to
more than 300,000 people
and delivered in excess of 200
tons of supplies during the
first 8 weeks of the disaster.
Named Pan American Devel-
opment Foundation’s Ambas-
sador for Haitian Children, he
testified to Congress on their
behalf in June 2010.
Mr. Jean-Louis has taken part
in a series of campaigns for
Haitian aid, he was an invited
singer on the Quincy Jones
project “We Are The World”
to benefit humanitarian relief
efforts in Haiti.
During Haitian Independence Month, January
2010, Jimmy received the Key of Miami-Dade
County. More recently during Haitian Heritage
Month, May 2018, he was presented with the Key
to the City of North Miami.
Jimmy Jean-Louis was named Ambassador at
large to Haiti by his Excellency President Michel
Martelly In 2014.
With the help of the FFH | UFF CEO Marco
Molinet, Frosty’s Flava Magazine’s Publisher
Frances Remy was rewarded with an
opportunity to sit
& chat with one of
her favorite Actors,
Jimmy Jean-Louis
and here’s how that
conversation went.
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