SUMMER’S END
2024 | 20m | Narrative Short
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.
Starring | Maria Dizzia, Michael Abbott Jr., Graham Lutes
Cinematographer | Greta Zozula
Written, Directed, Produced by | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
Woodstock Film Festival - Official Selection (2024)
Hollyshorts - Official Selection (2024)
Cucaloras - Official Selection (2024)
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - Official Selection (2024)
FilmFort - Official Selection (2025)
IFFBoston - Official Selection (2025)
Las Cruces IFF - Official Selection (2025)
Nitehawk Shorts Festival - Official Selection (2025)
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THE MAKING OF SUMMER’S END
A QUEER FILM IN THE HEART OF A SOUTHERN FANTASYLAND
2024 | 15m | Documentary Short
A behind-the-scenes documentary.
Written & Narrated by | Mesha Maren
Produced by | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
Cinematography by | Gus Aronson & Theo Matza
Super 8 Footage by | Riley Patterson
Edited by | Adam Conversano
Music by | Daniel Glenn Padgett
ZONA MOTEL: Myrtle Beach of the Mind
FATHER, CAN’T YOU SEE
I’M BURNING?
2022 | 9m | Documentary Short
In this reflexive essay documentary, Grant Conversano interrogates the history of their family photos and what it means to be photographed as a child by one's father.
Written, Directed, and Narrated by | Grant Conversano
Cinematographer | Grant Conversano
Produced by | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
NFFTY - Official Selection (2022)
RiverRun IFF - Official Selection (2022)
FilmDiary NYC - Official Selection (2022)
Davey Fest - Official Selection(2022)
NOBUDGE: Online Premiere
WE WANT FACES SO BAD
2021 | 11m | Narrative Short
Alexx must ‘face’ the reality of her overnight transformation when she joins her faceless friends in their nightly manifesting faces ritual
Starring | Cricket Brown, Jasmine Kimiko, Meagan Kimberly Smith, Rebecca Brinkley
Directed by | Matthew Van Gessel
Written by | Michael Calciano
Produced by | Grant Conversano, Adam Conversano
New People Cinema Club - Official Selection (2021)
Fantasia Film Festival 2022 - Official Selection (2022)
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival - Official Selection (2022)
Sydney Underground Film Festival - Official Selection (2022)
SHORT OF THE WEEK: Online Premiere
FIRST SHOWING: Faceless Dark Comedy Horror
THE PROCESSION
2020 | 9m | Documentary Short
Shot on June 13th, 2020, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Cabarrus County High Schools graduate on the race track during the coronavirus pandemic.
Directed and Produced by | Grant & Adam Conversano
Cinematographer | Donald R. Monroe
Editor & Sound Mixer | Adam Conversano
Ghent IFF- Best International Short nominee (2020)
Las Cruces IFF - Official Selection (2020)
SHORT OF THE WEEK: Online Premiere
ALMA
2018 | 19m | Narrative Short
Melodia, a Venezuelan middle schooler, struggles to fit into her new North Carolina home. She lives inside her novel that she is secretly writing on the way to school.
Starring | Isabela Rengifo
Director | Grant Conversano
Writers | Grant Conversano, Bridget Anderson
Producers | Kevin Cutrara, Abraham Bengio
Director of Photography | Trent Spivey
Indie Grits - Official Selection (2019)
NO BUDGE: Online Premiere
WHERE MOTHBLOODS BLOOM
2017 | 16m | Narrative Short
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.
Featuring | Jacobi Howard, Ahna Demaro, Joshua Pagan
Director | Grant Conversano
Writers | Grant Conversano & Kevin Cutrara
Producers | Kevin Cutrara & Dorian Thomas
Cinematographer | G. Chandler Cearley
Austin Film Festival - World premiere (2017)
Denver Film Festival - Official Selection (2017)
Cinequest Film Festival - Official Selection (2018)
Visions 8 Film Festival - Best Regional Narrative Short (2018)
Riverrun IFF - Official Selection (2018)
Sundance Ignite - Finalist Film (2018)
PBS: Film School Shorts
PIGEONHEARTS
2016 | 5m | Narrative Short
A memory of adolescence coming into focus. Two teenagers push the boundaries of their friendship while they explore an abandoned farmhouse together.
Featuring | Lucas Hedges, Emma Geer
Written & Directed by | Grant Conversano
Producers | Kevin Cutrara, Ede Bell Crowder
Cinematographer | Eric Gesualdo
SHORTSVERSE: Online Premiere