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Part of our Short Narratives 1: PEOPLE & THE ARTS Program

Directors Frank Mosley & Hugo De Sousa

Directors' Statement:

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Directors' Biographies:

FRANK MOSLEY is a Texas-born actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He’s a fellow of the 2015 Berlinale Talents, 2017 NYFF Artist Academy, and 2016 Workshop for Auteurs led by Abbas Kiarostami. Under the direction of Charles Burnett, he also participated as an actor in the 2016 Austin Film Society Artist Intensive. Frank's recent starring work in FREELAND (SXSW 2020) has been called "excellent...compellingly slippery" (The Hollywood Reporter), "effortless and natural...his depth adds richness to the film's world" (The Seventh Row), and that he's a "dependably fantastic American indie mainstay" (Filmmaker Magazine). He's also appeared in films such as UPSTREAM COLOR (Sundance 2013), CHAINED FOR LIFE (Kino Lorber), DEAR MR. BRODY (Tribeca 2020), THUNDER ROAD (SXSW 2018), PERSON TO PERSON (Sundance 2017), AMERICANA (Fantasia 2016), COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS (SXSW 2016), THE GHOST WHO WALKS (Champs-Elysees 2018), THE PROCEDURE (Sundance 2016), and as the lead in SOME BEASTS, for which he won a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival and was listed as "one of the best performances of 2017" (Film Pulse). In 2020, Kinoscope held an online retrospective of his writing/directing work called "Frank Mosley: Actor, Director, Adventurer."

These included his trilogy of shorts PARTHENON (Slamdance 2018), CASA DE MI MADRE (Champs-Elysees 2017), and SPIDER VEINS (Sidewalk 2016); and HER WILDERNESS, an interactive film a decade in the making which has been called "a beguiling experience" (The Playlist) and “a mesmerizing film by a superb actor and filmmaker" (RogerEbert.com). Of his trilogy, James Slaymaker at Vague Visages wrote: “The short films of Frank Mosley are miracles of economy. Finely observed, conceptually audacious and formally assured, Mosley’s filmmaking reflects a remarkable maturity and ambition rarely exhibited in the contemporary landscape of low-budget American cinema. Mosley is a major cinematic voice.”

HUGO DE SOUSA is a Los Angeles based actor and filmmaker. Upon finishing college in his home country of Portugal, he moved to New York where he studied under the guidance of Carol Rosenfeld in one of the most prestigious acting studios in the country, HB Studio, home to the late legendary teacher, Uta Hagen. He has since been working exclusively in the independent world, landing breakout leading roles in films such as I Am Good, We Used to Know Each Other, where Hugo was called "exceptionally insightful" (Film Threat), and Mister Limbo (Fantaspoa, Chattanooga 2021), of which Nightmarish Conjurings wrote: "De Sousa particularly stood out... the entire scene relies on his acting and he kills it."

Most recently, he starred in the international co-production Everything in the End (Cinequest, PIFF, BendFilm, CIFF 2021), where his role was call "phenomenal... De Sousa carries the film" (Disappointment Media).