Frank Mosley
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Frank Mosley

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Frank Mosley is an actor and filmmaker from Texas living in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. His directing work includes Good Condition (Fantasia 2023), Parthenon (Slamdance 2018), Casa De Mi Madre (Champs-Elysees 2017), and The Event (Fantastic Fest 2022), which debuted as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was named a "Top 12 Film of 2023" on NoBudge. Acting credits include Obex (Sundance 2025, Oscilloscope Laboratories), Rent Free (Tribeca 2024, Vinegar Syndrome), Quantum Cowboys (Fantastic Fest 2022, Factory 25), Freeland (SXSW 2020, MUBI), Chained for Life (NYTimes Critics Pick 2018, Kino Lorber), The Procedure (Sundance Jury Prize 2016, Adult Swim), Collective Unconscious (SXSW 2016, The Criterion Channel), and Upstream Color (Sundance Jury Prize, Berlinale 2013). He's been called "a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com) and "a dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine).

Known for

Upstream Color
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Thunder Road
Person to Person
Chained for Life
Obex
Gallows Road
Aimy in a Cage
Don't Look in the Basement 2
The Ghost Who Walks
Collective: Unconscious
The Carnivores
Obex
Love and Work
The Plan
Whoopin'
Jackrabbit
It Was Just a Nightmare
Hot Wieners and Coffee Milk
El Tonto Por Cristo
No Hands
Reunion
I'm Not Sure
Rent Free
Destroyer
Don't Die
Raps
Puncher's Chance
Deadendz
Quantum Cowboys
Good Condition
Dear Mr. Brody
The Event
Katja Dreams of Waking Up
Kiddo
They Want Me Gone
Kin
Freeland
Ilsa
The Finger
The Carnivores
Boundaries
Chained for Life
The Ghost Who Walks
The Phantom 52
The Prowler
Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
Thunder Road
Innards
Person to Person
Don't Ever Change
Coyotes Kill for Fun
Parthenon
Black Soil, Green Grass
Americana
The Bulb
Collective: Unconscious
A Feast of Man
Spider Veins
Casa de mi madre
The Ladies of the House
Some Beasts
They Had It Coming
Don't Look in the Basement 2
Two Story
Gallows Road
Aimy in a Cage
Tears of God
Sabbatical
White Creek
Ghosts of Empire Prairie
Panhandle Jim
Her Wilderness
Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
Suburbanite
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Upstream Color
Wuss
Cork's Cattlebaron
I Could Live in Hope
The Other Side of Paradise
Hold
Leave
Lions' Den
Relation
Little Boy
Wednesday
Holy the Sabbath
Invaders from Venus!
Balls in the Icebox
The Cellist
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