John Angell Grant is a writer/director/actor from Palo Alto, California. His book of poems, “The Green Notebook,” was published last fall by EPE Press, in San Francisco. More info here and here (press release) and here.
Here are some reviews of “The Green Notebook.”
Grant’s latest short film is titled “How to Make Amends.” You can see the film here.
It won “Best Indie Short Film” at the Paris Film Awards; “Best U.S. Narrative Short” at the Austin International Art Festival; a “Gold Award: Best Indie Short Film” at the International Gold Awards; a “Silver Award: Indie Short Film” at the New York Movie Awards.
His earlier short film “Two Stoners” won 18 awards, including “Best Indie Super Short Film” at the 8 & Halfilm Awards, a festival in honor of Fellini’s masterpiece “8 1/2.” You can see the film here.
Grant’s short film, “1958” won nine awards, including “Gold Award for best Super Short Film” at the Florence Film Festival. You can see the film here.
Books
Academica Press published John Angell Grant’s book entitled Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room Plays of T.S. Eliot. Read more
Grant’s serialized novel A Deadly Secret tells of homicide and intrigue in present-day Palo Alto. Episodes from the novel were published each day in the Palo Alto Daily Post. Read episodes
Grant’s earlier serialized novel Palo Alto Odyssey, about rapidly changing life in present-day Palo Alto, ran for seventy-two episodes in the Palo Alto Daily Post newspaper in the fall of 2015. Read episodes
Plays
Grant is also the author of twelve produced stage plays. Read more
Holocaust Interviews
During his tenure as video producer for San Francisco’s Holocaust Oral History Project, Grant produced hundreds of video interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and liberators. Read more
Movies
Grant has made 100 short films. See some here.
Acting
John Angell Grant is also an actor. You can see a sample of his work here in the short film “How to Make Amends.”
