[2][3] He was born in Monrovia, Liberia to a prominent Liberian family; the Martins of Grand Bassa County and the Francis from Marshall.
Then he attended to Hunter College, a liberal arts school on Manhattan's Upper East and studied film and interned at MTV Networks.
He was the second assistant director for many television series and films, including The West Wing (1999), NCIS (2003), The Closer (2005), Crank (2006), Brothers & Sisters (2006), and Zeke and Luther (2009).
In 2005, he won the African Film Commission's top prize for screen-writing for his screenplay Piankhi, the Prince of Egypt.
In 2012, he made his maiden feature film, Murder in the Cassava Patch, which is based on his native Liberia.