Reinaldo Marcus Green

Reinaldo Marcus Green is an American film director, producer, and writer whose work has quickly earned critical acclaim for its thoughtful storytelling and social relevance. Born on December 16, 1981 in the Bronx, New York, Green spent his formative years split between the Bronx and Staten Island, a multicultural upbringing that would later inform the nuanced characters and settings of his films. After graduating from Port Richmond High School, he pursued a Master of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and briefly taught elementary school before entering the corporate world, where he worked for five years at AIG overseeing educational programming and talent acquisition. The 2008 financial crisis forced a downsizing of his department, prompting Green to reconsider his career path and, inspired by his brother, enroll in the graduate film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts at age twenty‑seven. While at Tisch, he also began teaching as an adjunct professor, sharing his emerging expertise with a new generation of filmmakers. His early short films, such as Stone Cars—shot in Cape Town and showcased at Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2014—and Stop, a tribute to Trayvon Martin that debuted at Sundance in 2015, displayed his talent for blending personal narrative with broader social themes. Receiving the Sundance Institute Fellowship in 2017 paved the way for his first feature, Monsters and Men (2018), which won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance and established him as a powerful new voice in cinema. Green continued this momentum with Joe Bell (2020), a poignant drama produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Cary Joji Fukunaga, and the biopic King Richard (2021), starring Will Smith, which earned a Best Picture nomination at the 94th Academy Awards. His recent work includes directing the HBO miniseries We Own This City (2022), the biopic Bob Marley: One Love (2024), and upcoming projects for Marvel Studios and Lionsgate, confirming his status as a versatile and socially conscious storyteller.