Adam Conversano
Directing
Biography
Adam Conversano (He/They) is a filmmaker from Concord, North Carolina, now based in Brooklyn, NY. He is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for Filmmaking and the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities for Visual Art. His films have screened at the Hollyshorts Film Festival, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Bolton International Film Festival, Davey Fest, NFFTY, Fantasia Film Festival, and Film Diary NYC. His work has been distributed online by Filmmaker Magazine, Vimeo Staff Picks, NoBudge, and Short of the Week. He is a recipient of the 2021 National Davey Grant for Emerging Filmmakers, In 2023 he was featured in Brooklyn Magazine's "50 Most Fascinating People in Brooklyn".
Known For
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
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team of cold case cops uses Kenda’s groundwork to set a trap for a monster hiding in plain sight.
Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up
Joe Kenda's investigation into the brutal rape and murder of 24 year old wife and mother Mary Lynn Vialpando goes cold until DNA technology leads cold-case detectives to the most unlikely of killers 30 years later.
Homicide Hunter: The Man with No Face
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
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
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
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?
Cabarrus County High Schools graduate on the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coronavirus pandemic.