
Grant Conversano
Directing
Biography
Grant Conversano is a queer filmmaker from Concord, North Carolina. In 2023 they were featured in BK Magazine's 50 Most Fascinating People of Brooklyn. They are a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Film Directing program and are an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium. Their short films have screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, IFFBoston, Austin Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Filmfort, Davey Fest, and the Fantasia Film Festival.
Known For

After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.
Rent Free

A filmmaker returns to his hometown, Oak Ridge, TN, the secret city that built the atomic bomb. There, he meets the workers who created humanity's greatest weapon that now wrestle with their legacy, while their grandchildren inherit a world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.
Born Secret

When a chance encounter on a dating app reveals his father’s double life, a troubled young man must face the parallels between his own destructive patterns and his alcoholic father’s infidelity.
Summer's End

Alexx must 'face' the reality of her overnight transformation when she joins her faceless friends in their nightly manifesting faces ritual.
We Want Faces So Bad

In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them.
Interstate 8

Two teenagers push the boundaries of their friendship while they explore an abandoned farmhouse together.
Pigeonhearts

Autumn, fed up and exhausted, cuts ties with her heroin addict boyfriend in a gas station parking lot. Stranded and alone, she approaches a semi-truck driver eating by himself. The two strangers awkwardly share a table.
Where Mothbloods Bloom
In an era where reality and fiction blur, filmmaker Kyle Vorbach attempts to use cutting-edge AI technology to fake his way into the life of his dreams.
How I Faked My Life with AI

A behind the scenes documentary on the making of Summer's End, shot on location in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The Making of Summer's End | A Queer Film in the Heart of a Southern Fantasyland

In rural Vermont, immigrant dairy farmworkers endure hardship and oppressive working conditions while forging community through soccer and collective action.
La Liga

Melodia, a Venezuelan middle schooler struggles to fit into her new North Carolina home. She lives inside her novel that she is secretly writing in her phone on the way to school.
Alma

Filmmaker, Grant Conversano, interrogates the medium of the family photo, and what means to be photographed as a child by one's father while exploring inter-generational trauma, grief, and addiction.
Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?

Three young men pursue different activities in a triptych film.
The Merrybell Motel

Cabarrus County High Schools graduate on the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coronavirus pandemic.