Seith Mann

      Seith Mann is a Morehouse College alumnus and a graduate of the Graduate Film Program at New York University.  His thesis film, five deep breaths, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, won Best Narrative Short at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, and the 1st Place King Award and The Carl Lerner Award for Film with Social Significance at the 2003 New York University First Run Festival.  It was subsequently selected to screen at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and the Cinefondation Competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.  After film school, Seith completed the prestigious ABC/DGA Television Directing Fellowship Program, where he shadowed on television shows including Grey’s Anatomy and Alias.
     To date, Seith has directed over thirty episodes of television including THE WIRE, GREY’S ANATOMY, JERICHO, HEROES, THE RICHES, BROTHERHOOD, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, CALIFORNIACATION and DEXTER.  He has been nominated for a DGA Award, four NAACP Image Awards and won a NAACP Image Award for Directing for his episode of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.  His most recent episode of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS was recently nominated for the 2011 NAACP Image Awards.  He is currently finishing the screenplay adaptation of the graphic novel MISS: BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRIME which he will also direct for Vigilante Entertainment and Executive Producer, Spike Lee, and preparing to shoot his first feature film, COME SUNDAY.