Summer’s End

2024

Narrative Short

20 min

Elliott discovers his father on a hookup app while on a family vacation. His confrontation with his alcoholic father’s infidelity becomes a reckoning with himself and his own demons.

Credits

Written, Directed & Produced by: Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano

Starring: Maria Dizzia, Michael Abbott Jr., Graham Lutes

Cinematographer: Greta Zozula

Festivals & awards

  • Vimeo Staff Pick (2025)

  • Best Director, Summer Shorts Fest

  • Best LGBTQ Short, Macon Film Festival

  • HollyShorts Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)

  • Woodstock Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)

  • Cucalorus Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)

  • Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Official Selection (2024)

  • Filmfort, Official Selection (2025)

  • IFFBoston, Official Selection (2025)

  • Las Cruces International Film Festival, Official Selection (2025)

  • Nitehawk Shorts Festival, Official Selection (2025)