Grant Conversano is a queer filmmaker from Concord, North Carolina. In 2023 they were featured in BK Magazine's 50 Most Fascinating People of Brooklyn. They are a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Film Directing program and are an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium. Grant is a 2020 Indie Grits Lab Real Fiction Fellow, a former 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 played at the Austin Film Festival, The Denver Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, The Davey Fest, NFFTY, and the Fantasia Film Festival.