Rashaad Ernesto Green

Starting his career as an actor, New York native Rashaad Ernesto Green received his BA from Dartmouth College, MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program, and recently graduated from NYU's Graduate Film Program, where he now teaches. After spending three years acting in theaters nationwide and working with directors such as Spike Lee, Rashaad worked as a teacher in the South Bronx before moving behind the camera to tell stories.  Rashaad was included on the 2010 Filmmaker Magazine’s elite 25 New Faces of Independent Film list as well as indieWIRE's 2009 Top Ten New Voices in Cinema.

Rashaad’s film Premature won the Grand Jury Prize in the 2008 HBO Short Film Competition, screened on HBO, played over 40 festivals worldwide, was broadcast in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Kenya, Japan, and garnered over 20 awards, including the Directors Guild of America Student Award and the National Board of Review Award.  His short Choices premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and his short Cuts also screened on HBO.  Selected for the 2010 Tribeca All Access Program, IFP’s Independent Film Week, a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation–Cary Grant Film Award and the 2011 Imagen Award for Best Film, Rashaad's thesis feature film Gun Hill Road, starring Esai Morales and Judy Reyes, premiered in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Competition.  Gun Hill Road, a gripping drama about a Latino family in the Bronx, opened #1 for Independent films at the box office last summer.  Find out more about Gun Hill Road at www.gunhillroad.com & about Director Rashaad Ernesto Green at www.mialmafilms.com.

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