
Frank Mosley
Directing
Biography
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

After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.
Rent Free

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Upstream Color

Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician.
Quantum Cowboys

A rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.
Taurus

After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.
Sabbatical

Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single day, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a radical act they believe will change the world. As paranoia builds and fractures deepen, the lines between purpose, fear, and identity blur.
The Plan

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Thunder Road

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
OBEX

Loss and heartbreak challenges one man to forgive the unforgivable.
Gallows Road

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
Person to Person

Two brothers come to blows over how to discipline a child for trying to drown the family cat. Things go haywire as one of the brothers is determined that the generational darkness of corporal punishment ends with him.
Whoopin'

An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.
Americana

The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
Wuss

Working hard to support her daughter, Monica is a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and her daughter becomes more perilous.
They Want Me Gone

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life

A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
Dear Mr. Brody

A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a holy fool.
El Tonto Por Cristo

Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
The Phantom 52

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?