Green was born in the Bronx to an African American father and a Puerto Rican mother and grew up in Staten Island among other areas of New York City.

[4] He then worked at AIG for five years as a director of educational programming and talent acquisitions, needing the money to pay off his undergraduate loans.

Among these were Stone Cars, which was shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa and showcased at the 2014 Cinéfondation in Cannes, and Stop, which was inspired by the killing of Trayvon Martin and premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

[11][12][13] His next project was Joe Bell, produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Cary Joji Fukunaga, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Connie Britton, and Maxwell Jenkins.

[11] For his first television project, Green directed three episodes of the British crime drama Top Boy for its third series, which premiered in 2019.