Moon Molson – Meadowlandz

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Moon Molson is a New York based filmmaker. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he won the Eleanor Frost Experimental Theatre Prize and two Alexander Laing Memorial Screenwriting Awards.

After college, Moon worked in the New York City film industry in both production and post, wrote spec sitcom pilots, and directed Off-Off Broadway theatre at the now defunct Acting Studio, Inc. as a member of the Chelsea Repertory Lab. In fall 2000, Moon entered the M.F.A. program in Film Directing at Columbia University, and in summer 2002 he won the prestigious Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Internship and was flown to Los Angeles to work in television commercials.

Moon's thesis short film "Pop Foul" has screened at over 100 international film festivals and has won more than 40 awards worldwide, including the Panavision Grand Jury Award at the 2007 Palm Springs ShortFest, the REEL Shorts Jury Award at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW), the HBO Short Film Award at the 2006 American Black Film Festival, and the 2006 Student Academy Award.

Moon has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), New York State Council of the Arts (NSYCA), the Jerome Foundation, Urban Artists' Intiative/NY, the Rooftop Filmmaker Fund, and in summer of 2007 was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film."

He attended the 2008 Tribeca All Access Program, the 2008 Film Independent (FIND) Directors Lab, and the 2008 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs