Career
His nonfiction documentary films include, Actress, Kati With an I, and Fake it So Real. He was named one of the 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014 by The Independent, and is “filmmaker-in-chief” at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri, beginning in 2015. Actress, his most recent film, follows Brandy Burre (The Wire) as she attempts to re-enter the acting industry after leaving her career to have a family in Beacon, New New York
Greene is from Charlotte, North Carolina. He received his bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University in 2000, majoring in communication and multidisciplinary film studies.
He received his Master of Fine Arts at City College of New York in media arts studies.
In New York, he also worked at Kim’s Video. In 2002, Greene began working at 4th Row Films, starting as freelance editors
By 2004 he was full-time as a post-production supervisor. During this time, he worked with producers Douglas Tirola and Susan Bedusa on films including All In: The Poker Movie (2008), Making the Boys (2011), and An Omar Broadway Film (2008).
While he was at 4th Row, Greene directed and produced Owning the Weather (2011) and Kati with an I (2010).
In 2012, Greene left 4th Row Films to work on independent projects. He has worked with Sean Price Williams and Alex Ross Perry, having edited Perry’s feature film Listen Up Philip, as well as Amanda Rose Wilder’s Approaching the Elephant, and Nick Berardini’s Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. In 2015 Greene was appointed filmmaker-in-chief at the new Murray Institute for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He is also an assistant professor in their Journalism and Film Studies programs.
He is also a writer, critic and reviewer, having appeared in many print and online publications, including Filmmaker Magazine, Criterion, and Criticwire.
Present Tense: Notes on American Nonfiction Cinema 1998-2013, his first book, is slated for release by The Critical Press for July 2015. Greene cites a variety of filmmakers and directors as influences for his work, including Frederick Wiseman, Albert and David Maysles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, and Kon Ichikawa.
Greene has called Peter Watkins’ “Edvard Munch (film)” his favorite film of all time. Foreign Actress, Greene was interested in Wiseman and Douglas Sirk for their mastery of visuals and definitive style, on how their influence could be incorporated in telling Burre’s story.
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2015) – editorQueen of Earth (2015) – editorListen Up Philip (2014) – editorChristmas, Again (2014) – editorApproaching the Elephant (2014) – producer, editorIf You Take This (2014) – producer, editorThe Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014) – additional editingHellaware (2013) – additional editingHey Bartender (2013) – co-editorLenny Cooke (2013) – additional editingAll In: The Poker Movie (2012) – producer, editorMaking the Boys (2011) – editorAn Omar Broadway Film (2008) – producer, editors
