Frank Frost

Washington, DC - Charter Member - SIGNIS - Frank Frost Productions

Frank Frost is an award-winning television producer and film critic. He is currently producing a two-hour documentary for public television on the life and vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

As a film critic, Frost serves as president of SIGNIS North America. Prior to that, he had established a U.S. membership affiliate for its predecessor, OCIC. He has served on juries at the Venice, Berlin, the Monte Carlo, and Prix Italia. In 2009 he initiated a new international SIGNIS jury at Filmfest DC, the International Film Festival of Washington, DC.

Frost served as associate producer of Franco Zeffirelli: Renaissance Man, a documentary about the production of Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon. He was on location in Italy filming with Zeffirelli for five months.

Before starting his own production company, Frost was director of creative services for eight years at the United States Catholic Conference, charged with developing pioneer public education programs across print, radio, film and television platforms, for the Campaign for Human Development, the Respect Life Program, and the Catholic Communication Campaign.

He is co-founder of the National Film Retreat. For the past nine years he has run, with his wife Mary, a popular film discussion series at Holy Trinity parish in Washington, DC, called Movie Moments of Grace.

Frost was prepared for production at the University of Southern California.  While writing his dissertation there, he enjoyed a two-year internship with Hollywood director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry; In Cold Blood). He was funded by the American Film Institute to be a director’s intern to Jack Lemmon, who at the time was directing the film Kotch, starring Walter Matthau.

Prior to earning a Ph.D. in communication/cinema from University of Southern California, Frank earned a Ph.L. in philosophy and an M.A. in English from Loyola University, Chicago. He lives in the Washington, DC area.