Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, editor, podcaster, writer and actor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he co-hosts the weekly podcast, SModcast.
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| Born | March 5, 1971 Vancouver, Washington, U.S.[1] |
| Website | http://www.smodcast.com |
Early life
Mosier was born in Vancouver, Washington[1] and moved around as a child between British Columbia and Washington. He has dual Canadian and American citizenship, as his father was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. As a teenager he resided in Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.[citation needed]
Mosier met Smith at the Vancouver Film School in Canada. Their first assignment, Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary, was a student film documentary that fell apart in production. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. They also added a segment in which the two were shown in silhouette as they described their fictional thoughts.[citation needed]
Four months into the eight-month program, Smith decided to drop out, but not before making a deal with Mosier: each would start writing a script of their own, and the one who finished last would help the other with his movie.[2]
Career
View Askew
On Kevin Smith's first feature film, Clerks, Mosier recorded the original sound on the set, edited the movie (at RST Video), and contributed to the budget.[citation needed] He also contributed by appearing on-screen as multiple characters, including the angry hockey player and Willam Black (a.k.a. Snowball).
On 1995 film Mallrats, Mosier worked in organizing the budget along with line producer Laura Greenlee, while presiding over a much larger crew.[citation needed] In the movie, he portrayed Svenning's assistant, Roddy. The character later appeared on a Jay and Silent Bob MTV short.
On the 1997 romantic comedy film Chasing Amy, Mosier and Smith agreed with Miramax's Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein to shrink the initial proposed budget from $3,000,000 to $250,000. The compromise allowed Mosier and Kevin to cast their friends instead of established stars.[citation needed] Mosier appears in the beginning of the film as the comics convention patron who gets into an argument with Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) after demeaning his career as an inker.
On the 1999 film Dogma, Mosier worked with Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. He also played the Smooching Seaman that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon meet on the bus.
On the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mosier worked with a budget of $20 million. The editing was difficult, due to the MPAA threatening to give the film a NC-17 rating. In the film, Mosier played the Assistant Director on the set of the fictional sequel to Good Will Hunting and reprises his Willam Black character from Clerks.
Mosier had a comparatively larger budget to work with on the film Jersey Girl, whose budget was $35 million. The editing was also difficult due to the studio's desire to cut down the large amount of Jennifer Lopez/Ben Affleck footage following the poor box-office performance of Gigli.
Mosier produced Clerks II in 2006. Smith stated he edited the film himself, making Clerks II one of three films Mosier has produced with Smith but not edited (the others being Mallrats and Zack and Miri Make a Porno). Scott makes a brief cameo as a concerned father who shields his daughter's eyes from the sight of a character sitting on a toilet.
In 2008 Mosier worked again with Smith as the producer on Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Other work
Mosier served as an executive producer, editor as well as actor for Bryan Johnson's Vulgar, an Askew production. He had also served as a producer (along with Kevin Smith) on Drawing Flies, A Better Place and Clerks: The Animated Series; he served as a co-executive producer on Good Will Hunting and Big Helium Dog. He also appeared in cameos in Drawing Flies as the Crying Diaperman, in A Better Place as Larry and in Vulgar as Scotty. Mosier is also a co-host, along with Smith, of the SModcast podcast hosted by the Smith-owned SModcast.com.
In 2007, Salim Baba, a short documentary Scott produced, was nominated for an Academy Award. Filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello received the nomination (Mosier was unable to be nominated due to a limit of two nominees per short film).[3]
On SModcast 77 Mosier announced he would not produce Kevin Smith's film Cop Out (2010), instead pursuing his directorial debut.[4] He stated on SModcast 90 that he finished writing his first feature screenplay, and was in the process of trying to sell it.[5]
On August 10, 2011 Mosier stated on Twitter that he has written some episodes of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon on Disney. This was confirmed in a special "SModcast Extra" (attached to SModcast No. 204 and episode 5 of the Comic Book Men podcast "Secret Stash") in which he and Kevin Smith interview Joe Casey; Scott has written six scripts for the series.[6][7]
Personal life
Mosier married girlfriend Alex Hilebronner on September 1, 2006. The couple met on the set of Jersey Girl.[8]
In the documentary Back to the Well: Clerks II, he states that he is agnostic, but still goes to church when Kevin Smith goes.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1994 | Clerks | Idiot Manchild Angry Hockey Player Mourner |
Producer Co-editor Special Thanks |
| 1995 | Mallrats | Roddy | Producer Storyboard artist Special Thanks |
| 1996 | Drawing Flies | Crying Diaperman | Executive producer |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Co-executive producer | |
| A Better Place | Larry | Executive producer Sound editor | |
| Chasing Amy | Collector | Producer Editor Special Thanks | |
| 1999 | Tail Lights Fade | Executive producer Special Thanks | |
| Dogma | Smooching Seaman | Producer Editor Special Thanks Storyboard artist Second Unit Director | |
| Big Helium Dog | Executive producer | ||
| 2000 | Vulgar | Scotty | Executive producer Special Thanks Editor Dialogue Editor |
| 2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | GWH2 Assistant Director Willam Black |
Producer Editor Storyboard artist Second Unit Director Executive album producer |
| 2004 | Jersey Girl | Producer Editor | |
| 2005 | The Ape | Editor | |
| Fool's Gold | Editor | ||
| Reel Paradise | Producer | ||
| 2006 | Clerks II | Concerned Father | Producer Special Thanks |
| 2007 | Who's Your Caddy? | Editor | |
| Small Town Gay Bar | Executive producer Special Thanks Editor | ||
| 2008 | Zack and Miri Make A Porno | Producer | |
| 2012 | Best Kept Secret | Executive producer | |
| A Band Called Death | Producer | ||
| 2013 | Free Birds | Producer Screenplay | |
| Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie | The General | Voice only | |
| Potential Inertia | Inspirational Thanks | ||
| Milus | Executive producer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1995 | Clerks | Special Thanks | |
| 1996 | Hiatus | Executive producer | |
| 1999 | Viewaskew's Look Back at Mallrats | Himself – Producer | Special Thanks |
| 2006 | Clerks II: Unauthorized | Himself | |
| 2012 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Writer: Six episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2001 | Judge Not: In Defence of Dogma | Himself – Interviewee | Producer |
| 2002 | An Evening With Kevin Smith | Himself – Voice Over the Phone | |
| 2004 | Clerks: 10th Anniversary Q & A | Himself | |
| Clerks: The Lost Scene | Producer | ||
| Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks | Himself | ||
| 2006 | Train Wreck! | Himself | Editor |
| Back to the Well: Clerks II | Himself | Executive producer Special Thanks | |
| 2009 | Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc | Himself |
| Year | Title | Job | Notes |
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| 1992 | Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary | Director Writer Producer |
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| 2002 | The Flying Car | Producer Editor 1st Assistant Director |
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| 2007 | Salim Baba | Producer | Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Short
References
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