Seith Mann
Seith Mann (born 1973)
Biography
Mann was inspired to become a director when he saw the
Five Deep Breaths
Mann's thesis at New York University was the short film Five Deep Breaths.[3] It was awarded the Spike Lee fellowship while in development in 2002.[4] The film is set at an all-black college. After a physical assault upon a young woman by her boyfriend, another man, Mark, and his friends are moved to take revenge.[3][5] Mann has commented that he likes morally ambiguous situations.[3] The short starred Jamie Hector, Anslem Richardson, Marcuis Harris, Harvey Gardner Moore, Curtiss Cook, and Ka'ramuu Kush. The score was composed by jazz musician Jason Moran.[3]
The film premiered at the 2003
Film maker magazine named Mann one of their 25 new faces of independent film in 2003.[3] They praised his direction of Five Short Breaths as "skillful".[3] The IFP gave Mann the Gordon Parks Awards for Emerging African-American Filmmakers following the film's release.[8]
Television
Television Producer
In 2006, Mann joined the directing crew of The Wire's fourth season.
Mann also was an ABC DGA Fellow class of 2005, a fellowship aimed at encouraging "diversity of race, gender and spirit in the filmmaking community."[13] In 2007 Mann was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series for his work on episode "Home Rooms".[1][14] Mann has commented that he was "excited" to receive the nomination and grateful to the NAACP for their work.[1]
After The Wire, Mann worked on .
Future projects
Mann is working on a feature film script entitled Come Sunday.[1] The script won two development awards (the Emerging Narrative Screenwriting Award and the Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting) from the IFP in 2004.[17] In 2010, Mann was announced as director of Miss: Better Living Through Crime with Spike Lee producing.[18] In 2016, Mann was writing the Black movie.[19]
Filmography
Director
Year | Show | Episode | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2022 | Let the Right One In | "Broken Glass" | Season 1, episode 3 |
"Intercessors" | Season 1, episode 2 | ||
"Anything for Blood" | Season 1, episode 1 | ||
2021 | Blindspotting | "Smashley Rose" | Season 1, episode 2 |
"The Ordeal" | Season 1, episode 1 | ||
2020 | #FreeRayshawn | "He Just Wanted to Be Heard" | Season 1, episode 15 |
"It's Your Lucky Day, Marine" | Season 1, episode 14 | ||
"It's Time to Go" | Season 1, episode 13 | ||
"Fire in the Hole" | Season 1, episode 12 | ||
"Black or Blue" | Season 1, episode 11 | ||
"He's Telling the Truth" | Season 1, episode 10 | ||
"They All Want Me Dead, Don't They?" | Season 1, episode 9 | ||
"No Way Back" | Season 1, episode 8 | ||
"I'm Not a Negotiator" | Season 1, episode 7 | ||
"It's OK to Be Scared" | Season 1, episode 6 | ||
"Face to Face" | Season 1, episode 5 | ||
"Put the Brother On the Phone" | Season 1, episode 4 | ||
"Get Away From the Windows" | Season 1, episode 3 | ||
"Clear the Building" | Season 1, episode 2 | ||
"What Are You Doing Here?" | Season 1, episode 1 | ||
Homeland | "One Chalk Up" | Season 8, episode 14 | |
New Amsterdam | "14 Years, 2 Months, 8 Days" | Season 2, episode 12 | |
2019 | Raising Dion | "Issue #101: How Do You Raise a Superhero?" and "Issue #109: Storm Killer" | Season 1, episode 1 and Season 1, episode 9 |
2018 | Elementary | "Sober Companions" | Season 6, episode 11 |
2017 | White Famous | "Duality" and "Scandal" | Season 1, episode 7 and Season 1, episode 9 |
The Breaks | "Under Pressure" and "N.T." | Season 1, episode 7 and Season 1, episode 8 | |
Homeland | "R Is for Romeo" | Season 6, episode 11 | |
2016 | Ballers | "Everybody Knows" | Season 2, episode 7 |
The Breaks | TV film | ||
Elementary | "You've Got Me, Who's Got You?" | Season 4, episode 17 | |
2015 | Homeland | "Our Man in Damascus" | Season 5, episode 11 |
Ballers
|
"Machete Change" | Season 1, episode 4 | |
Veracity | Short film | ||
Elementary | "The One That Got Away" and "The View from Olympus" | Season 3, episode 12 and Season 3, episode 18 | |
2014 | Homeland | "There's Something Else Going On" | Season 4, episode 9 |
Hell on Wheels | "Bleeding Kansas" | Season 4, episode 11 | |
Rectify | "Until You're Blue" | Season 1, episode 9 | |
Nurse Jackie | "The Lady with the Tramp" and "Sidecars and Spermicide" | Season 6, episode 8 and Season 6, episode 10 | |
Californication | "Getting the Poison Out" | Season 7, episode 5 | |
Elementary | "Ears to You" and "The Man with the Twisted Lip" | Season 2, episode 17 and Season 2, episode 21 | |
The Walking Dead | "Claimed" and "Consumed" | Season 4, episode 11 and Season 5, episode 6 | |
2013 | Homeland | "A Red Wheel Barrow" | Season 3, episode 8 |
Unforgettable | "Incognito" | Season 2, episode 2 | |
Nurse Jackie | "Walk of Shame" | Season 5, episode 6 | |
Touch | "Ghosts" | Season 2, episode 7 | |
Californication | "Everybody's a Fucking Critic" | Season 5, episode 8 | |
Elementary | "Possibility Two" and "The Woman" | Season 1, episode 17 and Season 1, episode 23 | |
The Walking Dead | "Home" | Season 3, episode 10 | |
2012 | Elementary | "One Way to Get Off" | Season 1, episode 7 |
Falling Skies | "Death Match" | Season 2, episode 8 | |
Common Law
|
"Hot for Teacher" | Season 1, episode 11 | |
Nurse Jackie | "The Wall" and "Slow Glowing Monsters" | Season 4, episode 3 and Season 4, episode 4 | |
The Finder | "The Great Escape" | Season 1, episode 5 | |
House of Lies | "Microphallus" | Season 1, episode 3 | |
Californication | "Boys & Girls" | Season 5, episode 3 | |
2011 | Dexter | "Get Geller" | Season 6, episode 9 |
Hawthorne | "Fight or Flight" | Season 3, episode 2 | |
Californication | "The Trial" | Season 4, episode 10 | |
Detroit 1-8-7 | "Key to the City" | Season 1, episode 12 | |
2010 | My Generation | "Birth/Rebirth" | Season 1, episode 4 |
Lie to Me | "The Canary's Song" | Season 3, episode 5 | |
Rubicon | "Look to the Ant" | Season 1, episode 6 | |
Fringe | "Brown Betty" | Season 2, episode 20 | |
Melrose Place | "Stoner Canyon" | Season 1, episode 14 | |
Mercy | "Can We Talk About the Gigantic Elephant in the Ambulance?" | Season 1, episode 13 | |
Friday Night Lights | "Injury List" | Season 4, episode 11 | |
2009 | Californication | "Dogtown" | Season 3, episode 10 |
Heroes
|
"Cold Wars" and "Thanksgiving" | Season 3, episode 17 and Season 4, episode 10 | |
Hung | "This is America or Fifty Bucks" | Season 1, episode 9 | |
Harper's Island | "Gasp" | Season 1, episode 12 | |
Lie to Me | "Undercover" | Season 1, episode 11 | |
2008 | Brotherhood
|
"The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth" | Season 3, episode 4 |
Crash
|
"Panic" | Season 1, episode 3 | |
Everybody Hates Chris | "Everybody Hates the English Teacher" | Season 4, Episode 4 | |
Sons of Anarchy | "AK-51" | Season 1, episode 5 | |
Entourage
|
"Redomption" | Season 5, episode 6 | |
"Fire Sale" | Season 5, episode 4 | ||
The Riches | "Slums of Bayou Hills" | Season 2, episode 4 | |
Jericho | "Patriots and Tyrants" | Season 2, episode 7 | |
The Wire
|
"The Dickensian Aspect" | Season 5, episode 6 | |
2007 | Shark
|
"Student Body" | Season 2, episode 5 |
Men in Trees | "Chemical Reactions" | Season 2, episode 2 | |
Friday Night Lights | "Are You Ready for Friday Night?" | Season 2, episode 3 | |
Entourage | "The Dream Team" | Season 4, episode 5 | |
Jericho | "One If by Land" | Season 1, episode 20 | |
Lincoln Heights | "House Arrest" | Season 1, episode 12 | |
Cold Case | "Blackout" | Season 4, episode 13 | |
2006 | Grey's Anatomy | "Don't Stand So Close to Me" | Season 3, episode 10 |
"The Name of the Game" | Season 2, episode 22 | ||
The Wire | " | Season 4, episode 3 | |
2003 | Five Deep Breaths | ||
2001 | Apology |
Editor
- All We Know of Heaven (2004)
- Where to Find God on Sunday (2000)
- Kiss It Up to God (2000)
Writer
- Black (TBA)
- Five Deep Breaths (2003)
- Apology (2001)
Assistant Director
- The Living Silence (2003)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j George Alexander (2007-03-14). "Mann on the Move". Black Enterprise. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-11-05."March 14, 2007...At 33, the D.C. native is one of the youngest African Americans directing television dramas"
- ^ George Alexander (2007-03-14). "Mann on the Move". Black Enterprise. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "25 NEW FACES OF INDIE FILM 2003". Film Maker Magazine. 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "American Independent Competition: Short Films". Florida Film Festival. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "See the Short That Got Filmmaker Seith Mann a Job on 'The Wire'". Vulture Picture Palace. 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "39th Chicago International Film Festival Winners". Chicago International Film Festival. 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "NINTH ANNUAL IFP LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL". Movie City News. 2003. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Rosie Perez Hosts IFP Market Awards". IFP. 2003. Archived from the original on August 8, 2009. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ a b c d Jim King (2003). "3rd Exclusive David Simon interview". The Wire at AOL. Retrieved 2007-11-05. Page 5
- ^ "The Wire season 4 crew". HBO. 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ^ The Wire. Season 4. Episode 03. HBO.
- ^ a b "Episode guide - episode 40 Home Rooms". HBO. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
- ^ "DISNEY/ABC WRITING AND DIRECTING PROGRAMS REACH MILESTONE WITH MORE THAN 200 PARTICIPANTS TO DATE". ABC. 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "2007 Image Award nominees and winners". Hollywood Reporter. 2007. Archived from the original on March 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ Dave McNary (2007-01-11). "DGA nominates TV favorites". Variety. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Directors guild award nominees". Variety. 2007-01-31. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ Brian Brooks (2003). "IFP/New York Presents Six Awards At Annual IFP Market". IndieWIRE. Retrieved 2007-11-05.[dead link]
- ^ Jacobs, Evan (18 August 2010). "Seith Mann to Helm Miss: Better Living Through Crime". MovieWeb.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Busch, Anita (26 October 2016). "Seith Mann To Adapt 'BLACK' Comic In What Studio 8 Hopes To Be First In A Franchise". Deadline. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
External links
- Seith Mann at IMDb