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.
Written, Directed, Produced by | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
Starring | Maria Dizzia, Michael Abbott Jr., Graham Lutes
Cinematographer | Greta Zozula
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
BORN SECRET
2025 | 19m | Documentary Short
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.
Directed by | Riley Fitchpatrick
Produced by | Grant Conversano & Adam Conversano
Cinematographer | Katie Milnek
Edited by | Adam Conversano
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
Directed by | Matthew Van Gessel
Produced by | Grant Conversano, Adam Conversano
Written by | Michael Calciano
Starring | Cricket Brown, Jasmine Kimiko, Meagan Kimberly Smith, Rebecca Brinkley
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