Film
/
Narrative
Summer’s End
About
A chance match on a dating app exposes a young man’s father and the double life he has been hiding. Forced to look at his father’s drinking and infidelity, he has to face how much of it he sees in his own self-destructive habits.
Awards
Best Director, Summer Shorts Fest, 2025
Best LGBTQ Short, Macon Film Festival, 2024
Best Actor, Hub City Film Festival, 2024
Best Cinematography, Hub City Film Festival, 2024
Festivals
Filmfort, Las Cruces International, Nitehawk Shorts, IFFBoston, Summer Shorts Fest, Charlotte (2025); HollyShorts (world premiere), Macon, Middlebury New Filmmakers, Adult Film and Theater Festival NYC, Hub City, Bolton International (UK premiere), Woodstock, Cucalorus, Yellowstone International, Anchorage (2024)
Behind the scenes
The Making of Summer’s End, written and narrated by Mesha Maren
Credits
Directed and written by: Grant Conversano, Adam Conversano
Starring: Maria Dizzia, Michael Abbott Jr., Graham Lutes, and introducing Niko Trotter
Produced by: Grant Conversano, Adam Conversano, Noel Estrada
Cinematographer: Greta Zozula
Production designer: Tori Lancaster
Line producer: Stevie Borello
1st AD: Katie Sanderson
2nd AD: Stacey Torkelson
2nd 2nd AD: Dario Seastedt
Steadicam operator: A.J. Strauman-Scott
1st assistant camera: Riley Patterson
2nd AC / DIT: Summer Sierra
Gaffer: Julian Tran
Key grip: Trevor Hart
G&E swing: James Michael Douglas
Casting director: Violette Trotter
Costume designer: Marcella Caudill
Locations manager: Luke Lowder
HMU artist: Madison McLain
Graphic artist: Anna Sutton
Art PA / props: Amanda Lancaster
Script supervisor: Dasha Mazaeva
Key PA: Jake Shiptenko
PAs: Richie O’Kane, Johnny Deffinbaugh
New York PA: Ethan Fruist
BTS video / stills: Theo Matza, Gus Aronson
Intimacy coordinator: Hannah Myers
Editors: Adam Conversano, Grant Conversano
Colorists: Alex Jimenez, Orlando Wimberly
Sound designer: Doug Moss
Composer: Ariel Marx
Production companies: Apple House Pictures, Voyager