Frank Mosley is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and actor from Arlington, Texas.  At age nine, he began making vampire movies on Hi-8 with his friends in the family backyard, inducing them to performing dangerous stunts and saying words he’d seen written on restroom stalls.  He received his B.A. in English literature from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2006, with a minor in Film.  He is currently penning his first feature film script, Invitation Only, and is about to start the third installment of his passion project, the Perception Trilogy, which shows unexpected correlations between unlikely subjects.  Aside from his company Third Man Productions, he is the founder of an improvisational film collective, Backyard Movies, that focuses on raw, naturalistic character studies.  His short films have all played on the national festival circuit, including Little Boy, which took home the Best Film, Director, Editing, and Supporting Actress prizes at the 2007 Dark Horse Film Festival; Leave, which was nominated for Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Mid Valley Video Festival; and Balls in the Icebox, which had a limited engagement at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2004.  He was invited to be a panelist on a public discussion of “mumblecore” at the 2007 Lone Star International Film Festival and was a member of the jury for the Texas Show as part of the 2009 Dallas Video Festival. His recent play, hot/cold, was called “groundbreaking” and “an event not to be missed” by Fort Worth Weekly and Pegasus News, respectively.  As an actor, he's garnered acclaim for his starring performances in the films Coda, the Telly-winning Separated by Light, Relation (where he won Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay awards at the 2007 Dark Horse Film Festival), Wednesday, and The Other Side of Paradise (where he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2009 Action on Film International Festival). He can also be seen as the title character of the cult web-series Cool Wheels on youtube.  His favorite films include Glengarry Glen Ross, The Double Life of Veronique, Winter Light, Two Lane Blacktop, Last Year at Marienbad, and A Woman Under the Influence.  He likes strong coffee, the sound of rain, making love in the morning, and driving with the windows down.   

“From the first frames of any Frank Mosley short, there’s an immediate mark that the world is one of an actor’s director.  The influence of theater and the relationship of actors within a given space molds cinema that feels as if it plays out on a stage.”

                                                                        -Noralil Ryan Fores, Short End Magazine

“His startlingly rich themes of paradox, deception, and displacement are enhanced by fluent, inspired technical chops.  Mosley knows how to edit scenes to stir a maximum amount of tension and sadness from otherwise mundane or even dopey situations. Starting with extensive rehearsals full of goal-driven improvisation, he nudges professional and nonprofessional local actors alike (including his mother and grandmother) to give tight performances that don't bear the ragged improv scars of self-consciousness and self-indulgence.  Frank’s short films are all remarkably assured and cleanly executed, maybe the more impressive because Mosley is a multi-tasker -- not only as writer-director but also as an effective supporting actor in several of the movies.”

                                                                    -Jimmy Fowler, Fort Worth Weekly