In November 2014 it was announced that Mann had won Project Greenlight's season 4 contest and would direct The Leisure Class for HBO.

Mann received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts and a BA in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University.

[1][2] At the time, Mann was in his fourth-year at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

[3] Originally the contest winner was going to direct Not A Pretty Woman, a broad comedy screenplay.

[4] However, after Mann shared the script for a full-length version of a short film he had written, it was decided he would instead direct that script, The Leisure Class, which was released on HBO in 2015.