Grant Conversano is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker from Concord, North Carolina, working across fiction and nonfiction as a director, writer, producer, and cinematographer. With their brother Adam Conversano, they run Apple House Pictures. In 2023, they were named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s “50 Most Fascinating People.” In 2025, Grant was selected for the inaugural cohort of Square Peg Social, led by Ari Aster and his producing partner Lars Knudsen, as one of its director mentees.

Their newest film, The Weight of the Letters, received a 2026 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant.

Born Secret, which they produced and shot, screened at True/False in 2026 and won Best Short Documentary at Lighthouse International Film Festival.

Their short Summer’s End, premiered at HollyShorts, was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of eight Filmfort 2025 shorts to watch, Best Director at Summer Shorts Fest, and Best LGBTQ Short at the Macon Film Festival.

They are currently adapting Mesha Maren’s novel Sugar Run into a feature film.