Inspired by Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Mann earned his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College before completing an MFA in film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where his thesis short Five Deep Breaths garnered a Spike Lee fellowship and screened at Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca and Chicago, winning multiple honors including the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Award and the IFP Gor…
