Background
Arbouet was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, New York to Haitian father Jean-Claude Arbouet, a pharmacist, and Panamanian mother Ruth Prince, a cardiac cath lab technician.
Arbouet was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, New York to Haitian father Jean-Claude Arbouet, a pharmacist, and Panamanian mother Ruth Prince, a cardiac cath lab technician.
After graduating from Kellenberg Memorial High School in 1989, Arbouet enrolled at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, where he majored in Film and Communications and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He has two siblings, Kevin and Helene. He received his primary and secondary education while growing up on Long Island. He formed his own film production company Arbo Pictures in 2000 and since then he has produced and directed low-budget films.
Arbouet broke in to the film industry with the award winning film short he directed and produced called New York Minute.
He teamed up with New York native and writer Richard Signorelli on the picture How To Grow a Fig Tree (2007), an urban coming of age movie set in the Brooklyn/Queens area with an Italian backdrop. Arbouet has also appeared as an extra in the film I Believe in America (2007) and in the film The Girl in the Watermelon (1993).
He was also featured in Portraits in Dramatic Time, from the artist David Michalek, presented as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival at Lincoln Center. Michael produced the low-budget independent crime drama, Send Number Flowers (2013), starring Sean Young (Blade Runner, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) and Gianni Russo (The Godfather, Any Given Sunday).
Director Fred Carpenter, impressed with Arbouet, stated that “lieutenant takes someone like Arbouet that has that special kind of vision and understanding of how a movie is put together, to make a low budget feature look like a Hollywood film is simply amazing.”.
The film went on to win the Accolade Competition for Best Short film. At the 2013 Long Island International Film Expo, Send Number Flowers won several awards, including a Best Cinematography in a Feature Film, Best Editing in a Feature Film, Best Original Score for a Feature Film, Best Actor in a Feature Film and the Audience Award.
