Frank Mosley is an alumnus of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, a recipient of the 2015 Oak Cliff Film Festival Production Grant, and a selected participant of the 2016 Auteur Workshop, a ten day study with master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami held in Cuba and hosted through Black Factory Cinema and Escuela Internactional de Cine y TV in San Antonio de los Banos (EICTV). Frank is both a 2012 Culture Column Award and 2013 Visionary Award winner from FW Weekly, the publication which featured him as a 2013 June cover story and announced him as "the John Cassavetes of North Texas". He has been called "a superb actor and filmmaker" by Matt Fagerholm of RogerEbert.com.
His starring turn in Cameron Bruce Nelson's 2014 IFP Narrative Labs film Some Beasts was proclaimed "one of his best performances to date" (Hammer To Nail), "engaging...a strong central performance" (Madison Film Forum), and "a subtle, quiet miracle...a career-making performance that is a thing of beauty" (Truth On Cinema). Frank's also appeared in films such as Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, Eric Steele's Cork's Cattlebaron, Jon Jost's They Had It Coming, Calvin Lee Reeder's companion films The Bulb and The Procedure (the latter a Sundance 2016 Short Jury Prize), Brandon Colvin's Sabbatical, Clay Liford's Wuss, Dustin Guy Defa's Human People, and Zachary Shedd's Americana opposite Kelli Garner, David Call, and Jack Davenport. He also starred in Daniel Patrick Carbone's segment of Collective:Unconscious omnibus feature, entitled "Black Soil, Green Grass". His breakout role in Justin D. Hilliard's The Other Side of Paradise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 AOF Festival and hailed as "a potent dose of sexual chutzpah" (Variety), "an appealing performance with intriguing elements of depth" (The Hollywood Reporter), and that he "induces simultaneous states of humor, menace, intrigue, and sexual bravado" (Smells Like Screen Spirit). Frank is represented in Texas by The Atherton Group (Austin) and Linda McAlister Talent (Dallas).
As a director, his films and video installations have been featured at the likes of The Dallas Museum of Art, The Edinburgh Art Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Film Festival, 14 Pews, Kinoscope Film Series at The New School/NYC, The Northwest Film Forum, KERA's "Frame of Mind" on PBS, and the Micro Wave Cinema Series. In 2016, Fandor released three of his works for exclusive streaming, including his video installation Two Story, his feature debut Hold, and his sophomore feature Her Wilderness, which Indiewire deemed "a truly unique work with a distinctive voice", Film Pulse listed as "one of the best undistributed films of 2015", and Indie Outlook called "the best experimental narrative of the year...at once alien and achingly resonant". He's lectured at KD Conservatory, the DMA, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, UT Arlington, and the NW Film Forum, and been a panelist and juror for The Dallas Video Festival, The Lone Star International Film Fest, and Oak Cliff Film Fest. He's been a contributor to KERA's "Art N Seek" and Filmmaker Magazine, and is a co-founder of the Dallas film series Family Movie Night.
