Filmmaker Holly Mosher
Holly Mosher grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In high school she developed a passion for both photography and philosophy that led her to pursue filmmaking. In her college entrance paper, she cited George Orwell’s idea that all art should be political, and today, uses that concept to guide her work.
Holly graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. After graduating, she spent two years in Brazil working as an assistant picture and sound editor on four feature films, including the Oscar nominated film O Quatrilho. Once back in the US, Holly went on to produce numerous commercials and feature films, including Lady In the Box and Reeseville. The Hollywood Reporter, named her among the top up-and-coming independent film producers in 2001.
In 2004, Holly decided to return to her true passion to unite political purpose with art. Her directorial debut was the award-winning Hummingbird, an inspiring documentary about two non-profits in Brazil that work with street children and women who suffer domestic violence. The film got rave reviews and even inspired people to go to Brazil to volunteer with these NGOs.
Holly then went on to produce two films about the dangerous and misleading tactics of the pharmaceutical industry. The films, Side Effects, starring Katherine Heigl, and Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety, received unprecedented international press attention and have been heralded for raising awareness about a timely and important topic. Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety was honored by the American Library Association as a top pick of 2008. She also founded an entertainment company, Hummingbird Pictures, with Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau.
With her love of creating content that inspires, Holly co-produced Maybe Baby, which presents the challenges facing older single women trying to get pregnant with modern medical technology; Free For All!, which explores election fraud.
When deeply inspired by Muhammad Yunus work with microfinance and social business, Holly returned to the helm to direct, Bonsai People - The Vision of Muhammad Yunus, which aired on public television. Her 3 minute version of the film, The Impact of One, was a semi-finalist in Cinelan and GE’s Focus Forward Film Contest at Sundance.
She then moved on to Executive Producing with Vanishing of the Bees, starring Elliot Page; Pay 2 Play - Democracy’s High Stakes - looking at the corrupting influence of money in politics; and most recently The Invisible Mammal, a documentary following scientists working to save bats from White Nose Syndrome. Currently, Holly is executive producing Three Marches, Two Sisters, One Bridge.
Holly frequently tours does speaking engagements around the world with her films. She also loves to volunteer, having served as President on the boards of Public Interest Pictures and the Social Enterprise Alliance – LA Chapter, and was on the advisory board of Empowerment Works, which Produced The Global Summit.. She also helped found SMART Elections. Holly actively volunteers with Money Out Voters In as the Director of Outreach and Communications, which successfully ran California’s Prop 59 Overturn Citizen United Act campaign in 2016 and which organized The 28th Amendment National Roadshow and the Why Do You Vote? Social Media Campaign.
She is also co-developing in the near net zero, eco, health and wellness community in Middleton, WI called Belle Farm, with her former production company partner, Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau.
Director - Hummingbird, Bonsai People - The Vision of Muhammad Yunus
Co-Producer - Maybe Baby
Producer - Pay 2 Play, Free For All!, Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety, Side Effects, Lady in the Box, Reeseville
Executive Producer - Vanishing of the Bees; Free For All!; Pay 2 Play - Democracy’s High Stakes; The Invisible Mammal; Three Marches, Two Sisters, One Bridge
Director of Photography - Hummingbird, Bonsai People, Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels, An Obvious Moment of Happiness
Assistant Editor - Tudo É Brasil, Little Book of Love
Assistant Sound Editor - O Quatrillho, Tieta of Agreste
And before I was doing films for positive change, I produced commercials and a couple of thrillers...
LADY IN THE BOX is a first rate Hitchcockian murder mystery set on the dark industrial shores of Lake Michigan.
Jerry (Darren Burrows - Northern Exposure) is a bartender looking for something to happen in his life. He gets more than he bargains for when a patron at the bar (Mark Sheppard) offers him $500 to dump a steamer trunk into Lake Michigan. After completing the deed, Jerry returns home to find his apartment the site of an apparent murder—with no sign of his girlfriend (Paige Rowland). Panicked, he cleans up the scene, only to be blackmailed into committing another crime. Jerry soon realizes he is merely a puppet—and will go down for murder unless he can turn the tables with the help of his best friend (Robert Knepper) and escape the nightmare that he himself wished for just a few nights earlier.
LADY IN THE BOX is available from Hollywood Video and Netflix.
REESEVILLE is a dark murder mystery set in a small town.
David (Brad Hunt) returns to his hometown, haunted by the fact that his mother died while giving birth. Upon arrival, he is confronted by the harsh reality of his father’s suicide. When Zeek (Mark Hamill - Star Wars), the town’s coroner, begins to suspect that it was not just a suicide, David becomes the prime suspect. Jason (Brian Wimmer - China Beach), the town sheriff, tries to send David packing, not wanting to stir up his own buried secrets.
When David sticks around to romance Jason’s sister Iris (Majandra Delfino - Roswell), the tension mounts until the evil in REESEVILLE is revealed.