Meet the Director: Grant Conversano ("Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?")
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08-Sep-2022
Grant Conversano is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Film Directing program. They have worked for SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Sundance Institute, and are an alumnus of the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium. Grant is a 2020 Indie Grits Lab Real Fiction Fellow, a board member of the OUT at the Movies Film Festival, and works annually in the education department at the Telluride Film Festival. Their short films have been featured on the PBS program Film School Shorts, NoBudge, Directors Notes, and Short of the Week.
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