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ABOUT RASHAAD: Starting his career as an actor, Bronx native Rashaad Ernesto Green received his BA from Dartmouth College, MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program, and MFA from NYU's Graduate Film Program, where he was a Dean's Fellowship recipient. After spending years acting in theaters nationwide and working in film with directors like Spike Lee, Rashaad had the opportunity to work as a teacher in the South Bronx before turning his efforts behind the camera to tell stories. The world premiere of his film Premature won the Grand Jury Prize in the HBO Short Film Competition at the 2008 American Black Film Festival and is currently airing on HBO. Premature has played over 40 festivals worldwide, including Palm Springs International Shortfest, Munich International Film Festival, Sapporo International Film Festival of Japan, has broadcast in France, Germany, Poland, Japan, and has garnered over 20 awards, including the Directors Guild of America Student Award and the National Board of Review Award. Rashaad’s short, Choices premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and his latest short Cuts has screened at the Pan African Film Festival, the Chicago Film Festival, and has also screened on HBO. A recipient of the prestigious 2009 Princess Grace Foundation - Cary Grant Film Award and named one of indieWIRE’s top ten new voices in cinema, Rashaad's first feature Gun Hill Road was selected for the 2010 Tribeca All Access Program and also named recipient of the 2009 Spike Lee Fellowship, the 2010 Fotokem Printing & Processing Grant, and recognized by the Urban Arts Initiative in New York City and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Gun Hill Road premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2011 where it was aquired for distribution by Motion Film Group. GHR was the top grossing indie film it's first week of theatrical release (August). Gun Hill Road is traveling the festival circuit and securing dates for it's DVD and online release. ABOUT REI: Before diving headfirst into film production, Reinaldo Marcus Green (Rei) spent the last 10 years as an educator in one of NJ’s most prominent school districts and then as a corporate director at one of Wall Street’s most iconic companies of the 21st century, AIG. Rei’s passion for people and projects led him to transition out of the classroom into corporate life in the field of Talent Acquisition and Diversity, where he has spent the last four years honing his craft, broadening his network and strengthening his clientele. At AIG, Rei garnered a reputation for successfully navigating, orchestrating and driving high profile projects across various levels throughout the organization. He has a knack for building relationships, creating, designing and driving impactful programs successfully through to fruition. In his hours away from his day job, Rei intimately worked on several film projects with his brother, Director Rashaad Ernesto Green, while Rashaad attended NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film Program. Among the many projects include a short film Official Selection Sundance hit in 2009, Choices (Actor, Producer) and most recently Rashaad’s first feature length film, Gun Hill Road (Associate Producer), which also premiered at Sundance Film Festival this past January 2011, Official Selection US Dramatic Competition. In 2010, Rei produced two short films, The Interview and One Way Ticket. The Interview has screened at over twenty festivals globally including Raindance Film Festival (UK) and The HBO Latino International Film Festival. The Interview won "Best Short Short" at The Hoboken International Film Festival. In the summer of 2010, Rei was accepted into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he is currently pursuing his MFA in Film Production. Rei's most recent projects include a 4-minute MOS, The Future, a father-son story about life, hopes and dreams. Rei is also in the process of completing an Observational Documentary Pool of Gold, about a female boxer from Liverpool, UK on her journey to the Olympics in 2012. Both films will hit the festival circuit this spring.

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