Frank Mosley

Frank Mosley is a Texas-born actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He's a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. Under the direction of Charles Burnett, he also participated as an actor in the 2016 Austin Film Society Artist Intensive. His recent starring work in Freeland (2020 SXSW, SFFILM, Dark Star Pictures) has been called "excellent...compellingly slippery" (The Hollywood Reporter), "effortless and natural...his depth adds richness to the film's world" (The Seventh Row), and that he's a "dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine). Past starring work includes Collective:Unconscious (2016 SXSW, BAMCinemaFest), Americana (2016 SIFF, Fantasia), The Ghost Who Walks (2018 Champs-Elysees, Gravitas Ventures), and Some Beasts, for which he won a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival and was listed as "one of the best performances of 2017" (Film Pulse). He's also appeared in Upstream Color (2013 Sundance, Berlinale, New Directors/New Films), Chained for Life (2018 BAMCinemaFest, NYTimes Critics Pick, Kino Lorber), Dear Mr. Brody (2021 Tribeca, Telluride), Thunder Road (2018 SXSW, ACID Cannes), Person To Person (Magnolia Pictures), and The Carnivores (OutFest 2020). In summer 2020, Kinoscope held an online retrospective when they acquired the entirety of his writing/directing work entitled, "Frank Mosley: Actor, Director, Adventurer." These included his trilogy of shorts Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and Spider Veins (Sidewalk 2016); his looped video installation Two Story (Edinburgh Art Festival 2014); and Her Wilderness, an interactive film a decade in the making which has been called "a beguiling experience" (The Playlist) and "a mesmerizing film by a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com). Of his trilogy, James Slaymaker at Vague Visages wrote: "The short films of Frank Mosley are miracles of economy. Finely observed, conceptually audacious and formally assured, Mosley's filmmaking reflects a remarkable maturity and ambition rarely exhibited in the contemporary landscape of low-budget American cinema. Mosley is a major cinematic voice." With his partner, writer/actor Joslyn Jensen, he founded Script Eater, a screenplay coverage and feedback company for writers at any level of experience. Frank also offers independent coaching for actors and directors via Sidetime.