Reinaldo Marcus Green

Reinaldo Marcus Green is a distinguished filmmaker who has shown a distinct tendency in biographical films. Green was the director/writer and producer of six short films from 2011 to 2015, including works that premiered at the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival and culminating with Stop (2015), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Green’s debut as a writer-director is the drama following the true story of Eric Garner’s police murder, Monsters and Men (2018), starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Rob Morgan. Green returned as director on the father-son drama co-written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Joe Bell (2020), starring Mark Wahlberg, Reid Miller, Connie Britton and Gary Sinise, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Green made his breakthrough as a filmmaker with the widely acclaimed King Richard (2021), starring Will Smith, Udjaniu Ellis, Sunnyia Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn and John Bernthal, earning six Oscar nominations (with Smith for Best Actor, a Best Picture nomination, but no Best Director nomination for Green) after its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. In addition, Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing and co-writing his second biopic, Bob Marley: One Love (2024), starring Kingsley Ben-Adir (as Marley), Lassana Lynch, James Norton, Sevana and Tocine Cole, released by Paramount Pictures.