
Directing
Grant Conversano
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.
Acting credits
7.0After 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
2024
NRFilmmaker, 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?
2021
Behind the camera
6.0A 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
2025
6.0A 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
2025
NRMelodia, 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
2019
NRMelodia, 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
2019
NRCabarrus County High Schools graduate on the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Procession
2020
NRCabarrus County High Schools graduate on the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Procession
2020
NRWhen 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
2024
NRWhen 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
2024
NRWhen 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
2024
5.3Two teenagers push the boundaries of their friendship while they explore an abandoned farmhouse together.
Pigeonhearts
2017
5.3Two teenagers push the boundaries of their friendship while they explore an abandoned farmhouse together.
Pigeonhearts
2017
NRA 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
2025
7.0Autumn, 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
2017
7.0Autumn, 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
2017
2.5Alexx 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
2022
NRFilmmaker, 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?
2021
NRFilmmaker, 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?
2021
NRThree young men pursue different activities in a triptych film.
The Merrybell Motel
2016
