Ramaa Mosley

Mosley was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mosley is the daughter of Marilyn Mosley Gordanier and Rick Mosley and has two brothers, Raphael and Michael. Mosley was born on an Ashram and grew up in Ojai, California, where she attended Laurel Springs school. She is married to Cameron Gray (2004) and has two children.

Mosley has directed three documentaries, We Can Make A Difference, Two Seasons and Home, and Girl Rising.[1] Mosley has written and directed two short films, The Brass Teapot and Grace. She is considered to be one of the most successful female commercial directors in the industry, winning multiple awards including a Clio in 2018 for the Chevrolet "Goal Keeper" Campaign[5] and, to date, Mosley has won best director at the First Glance Film Festival for her short film Grace. In 2011, she won the Audience Choice Award at Dance Camera West for her short film In Dreams I Run Wild. Mosley has directed the feature film The Brass Teapot and directed the Afghanistan segment of 10x10's feature film Girl Rising.[6] Mosley co-wrote and directed the feature film Tatterdemalion.

At the age of 16, Mosley began directing music videos.[7] By the age of 19, Mosley was directing award-winning national and international commercials for clients such as Adidas, ESPNW, and Powerade.[8] Most recently, Mosley has directed commercials for ESPN, Levi's, and Nike. In February 2018, Mosley completed commercial campaigns for South West Airlines and Fuji Instax and won a Clio for her direction of the Chevrolet "Goal Keeper's" Campaign.[9]

In October 2013, Mosley launched Adolescent Content. Adolescent is a "GenZ Global Creative Youth Studio": with think tank, production company and digital platform dedicated to content made for youth by youth.[10] The production company represents young directors ages 11 to 26 years old for work directing commercials, branded contented, web series, television, and films. Their directors have recently completed campaigns for Beats Music Apps, Diesel, ESPN, American Girl, Vice, Tom's Shoes, Disney, and Skype.[11]

Adolescent Content represents teen and young millennial directors, photographers and social media influencers (as young as 11 years old). She has given a Ted Talk about the advantages of being a teen director called "The Power of Adolescent Directors".[12]

In December 2015, Adolescent launched their original scripted division, focused on the creation and distribution of entertainment content "created by youth for youth".[13]

On September 16, 2016, Adolescent Content launched their digital platform www.adolescent.net. Adolescent's recent Instagram series "The Out There" aired its second season in June 2018.[14]

In 2013, Mosley directed the Afghan segment of the documentary Girl Rising which follows the harrowing stories of girls around the world struggling to get an education. Girl Rising "is a global campaign for girls' education," which uses "the power of storytelling to share the simple truth that educating girls can transform societies. Girl Rising unites girls, women, boys and men who believe every girl has the right to go to school and the right to reach her full potential."[31]

Mosley is one of five directors who were asked by 10x10 Documentary Group to direct a segment of the documentary and, though she is not part of the Girl Rising organization, she has spoken out repeatedly in the news about the importance of educating girls and remains a supporter of the cause.[32]

Mosley has directed over a dozen music videos since she began directing in 1998 for artists including Fizzy Bangers, Jill Sobule, Kristen Berry, The B-52's ("Debbie"), Creed, Brendan Benson, Tonic, and Five for Fighting ("Superman (It's Not Easy).")

In the wake of the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping in Nigeria, Mosley gained national recognition for raising awareness about the atrocity. Utilizing social media to support the Bring Back Our Girls movement in Abuja, Nigeria. Mosley re-tweeted #BringBackOurGirls, which became a prominent part of the hashtag activism surrounding the incident.[33] In an interview with ABC News Mosley said she wept upon hearing of the kidnapping, and originally planned to travel to Chibok to cover the story, but later decided to campaign on social media instead, because of her young children.[33] The subsequent ABC News story was originally titled "Los Angeles Mother of Two Creates Viral Hashtag", but was later updated when Mosley wrote the producers to complain with a note reflecting the fact that Mosley was not the first to tweet the hashtag.[34]

The hashtag had been started by Nigerian Ibrahim M. Abdullahi, echoing a phrase said by the former vice president of the World Bank, Oby Ezekwesili in a speech.[33] Originally retweeted 95 times, including by Ezekwesili who has 125,000 followers on Twitter.[34] Mosley began tweeting the hashtag to her friends, and then the President of the United States, Barack Obama.[33] Mosely described the hashtag as an "SOS to the world".[33] A Facebook page about the kidnapping started by Mosley had more than 43,000 likes by early May and 230,000 by July.[33] Mosely said the incident had "...consumed my life and I believe it will until the girls are rescued." Mosley organized and attended five protest rallies in Los Angeles, drawing hundreds of people who collectively chanted the slogan.[33] The Guardian's story on the kidnapping was tweeted more than 3,500 times on April 23 and but received its largest boost from the performer Chris Brown.[34] The majority of prominent uses of the hashtag was by accounts related to the news network CNN.[34] Subsequently, Mosley co-organized a Mother's Day vigil. On May 22, Mosley also held a global schoolgirl march, in which thousands of school girls in cities around the world marched to raise awareness about the Chibok girl's plight.

• Dance Camera West audience Choice award [35]
• Global 500 UNEP award "We Can Make A Difference" [36]