Visual Arts Faculty
Moon Molson
About
Molson’s short films Pop Foul (2007), Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (2011), and most recently The Bravest, the Boldest (2014), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at over 250 international film festivals, and have since received more than 100 awards worldwide, including the Grand Jury Prizes at Palm Springs, South by Southwest (SXSW), and the Student Academy Awards. He has attended the 2008 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Labs, the 2008 Film Independent (FIND) Directors Labs, the 2015 Warner Brothers Television Directors' Workshop, and 2016 FOX Global Directors Initiative as a Fox Director Fellow. Molson was named a 2017 Pew Foundation Fellow, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video, and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Summer 2007. He has received grants from The Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Sundance Institute.
Molson’s films tell epic stories through the lives of contemporary characters using, in his words, “the language of the streets." Molson’s work examines urban masculinity, legacies of trauma, and family dynamics as he strives to “strike a balance between gritty realism, vernacular lyricism, stark humor, and the surrealism of dreams and hallucinations.”
News & Links
Johnny Ace — Feature Screenplay Finalist for 2018 New Orleans Film Festival
Johnny Ace — Finalist for the Best Screenplay Award at 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival
Johnny Ace Earns Honorable Mention for Best Screenplay at 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival
Moon Molson receives 2020 Rainin Grant in Screenwriting from the San Francisco Film Society | Filmmaker Magazine, July 14, 2020
Winners Announced for Spring 2020 SFFILM Rainin Grants | San Francisco Film Society (SFFILM), July 8, 2020
SFFILM Awards Grants to 7 New Independent Films | KQED, July 14, 2020
Moon Molson’s screenplay Hyper/Space wins Best Screenplay at the 2022 Urbanworld Film Festival — October 2022
Moon Molson and his feature film project Hyper/Space selected as a finalist in the AT&T Untold Stories competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival | AT&T News, May 2023