Moon Molson’s short films Pop Foul (2007), Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (2011), and most recently The Bravest, The Boldest (2014), all premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, have screened at over 250 international film festivals, and won over 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, 2008 Film Independent (FIND) Directors Labs, 2015 Warner Brothers Television Directors’ Workshop, and 2016 FOX Global Directors Initiative as a Fox Director Fellow. Moon was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Summer 2007 and has received grants from The Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and the Sundance Institute. Most recently, he was named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video.
He has taught film directing and screenwriting at New York Film Academy – LA, Savannah College of Art & Design, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Film & Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia and the Filmmaker in Residence at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.
Watch a trailer for “The Bravest, The Boldest”:
