
Frank Mosley
Department: 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

Black Soil, Green Grass
2016

Don't Die
2023

Wednesday
2006

Innards
2017

Boundaries
2019

Kin
2021

Knife
2011

The Finger
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Go Fuck Yourself Oliver
2015

Dear Mr. Brody
2022

Wuss
2011

The Event
2022

Raps
2023

Katja Dreams of Waking Up
2022

Kiddo
2022

El Tonto Por Cristo
2025

The Other Side of Paradise
2009

Adventures of Bailey: A Night in Cowtown
2013

Invaders from Venus!
2003

The Ladies of the House
2015

Rent Free
2024

OBEX
2026

Love and Work
2024

The Prowler
2018

They Want Me Gone
2022

You Are Your Body / You Are Not Your Body
2014

Sabbatical
2014

Some Beasts
2015

Americana
2016

Puncher's Chance
2023

Taurus
2022

And By We I Mean Me
2017

Deadendz
2023

They Had It Coming
2015

White Creek
2014

Don't Look in the Basement 2
2015

The Procedure
2016

Person to Person
2017

Cork's Cattlebaron
2011

Suburbanite
2013

Destroyer
2024

The Seagull (but like, not Chekhov)
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Ghosts of Empire Prairie
2014

Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
2018

The Bulb
2016

No Hands
2025

Don't Ever Change
2017

Ain't Them Bodies Saints
2013

Coyotes Kill for Fun
2017

Collective: Unconscious
2016

Upstream Color
2013

Chained for Life
2019

The Ghost Who Walks
2019

The Phantom 52
2019

Thunder Road
2018

Freeland
2021

Two Story
2015

I Could Live in Hope
2011

A Feast of Man
2016

Quantum Cowboys
2023

Ilsa
2021

The Carnivores
2020

Panhandle Jim
2014

Dogbite
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The Cellist
2002

Leave
2007

Lions' Den
2007

Gallows Road
2015

Relation
2007

Reunion
2025

I'm Not Sure
2025

Reunion
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The Plan
2026

Gus is my Brother
2025

Fur
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A Fresh Hell
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Whoopin'
2026