Best Emerging Artist 2025
John’s three short films “Two Stoners,” “1958” and “How to Make Amends” this month qualified him to win the “Best Emerging Artist Award 2025,” at the Monaco Film Meeting.
Poetry
John contributed 5 poems to the anthology “Poems from County Clare and Far Beyond,” including “Smoke Inhalation.”
John’s poem “A blind man dreams that he has recovered his sight” is published in Tangents 2025. You can read the poem here.
John’s collection of poems “The Green Notebook” is published by EPE Press in San Francisco. More info here and here. You can read reviews of “The Green Notebook” here.
You can read John’s poem “Smoke Inhalation” here.
English and French versions of John’s poem “The Green Notebook” appear in the anthology Mots de PaiX et d’Esperance.
You can read and hear more of John’s poems here.
Movies
The good news keeps rolling in! We just received a notification that our film “The Last Gasp” has won the award for Best Micro Short at the Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards. Congratulations to everybody who worked on the film! In “The Last Gasp” (3 minutes), two physicians discuss their suspicions about a recent case of sudden infant crib death. You can watch “The Last Gasp“ here.
John’s latest short film “Lurk” won “Best Super Short Film” at the Florence Film Awards. It also won Best Micro Short at the Berlin Short Film Festival. and Best Microfilm at the Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards. You can watch “Lurk” here. It will screen in the summer of 2026 at the BraveMaker Film Fest in Redwood City, California.
His earlier short film “Desert Harem” also won multiple film festival awards, including the Gold Award for Drama at the Paris Film Awards; and Best Editing at the Dallas Movie Awards. You can watch “Desert Harem” here.
John’s short film “How to Make Amends” won “Best Indie Short Film” at the Paris Film Awards; “Best U.S. Narrative Short” at the Austin International Art Festival; the “Gold Award: Best Indie Short Film” at the International Gold Awards; and the “Silver Award: Indie Short Film” at the New York Movie Awards. You can see the film here.
His earlier short film “Two Stoners” won multiple awards, including “Best Micro Film” at the Vienna Indie Short Film Awards; “Best Micro Short” at the Philadelphia International Filmmaker Awards; and a Sapphire Award for “Comedy Short” at the Focus International Film Festival. You can see “Two Stoners: here.
John’s short film, “1958” won several awards, including “Best Super Short Film” at the Hollywood Gold Awards; and “Best Cast” at Toronto’s Couch Film Festival. You can see the film here.
There are festivals for one-minute films. So John made a 59-second film titled “My Eighth Wife,” based on the story of his polygamous grandfather (who had 11 wives, and abandoned them all). “My Eighth Wife” was a Quarter Finalist at the Los Angeles Film Awards; and also an official Nominee for Best One-Minute Film at the Alternative Film Festival. It was also a semi-finalist in the Top Shorts awards. You can watch “My Eighth Wife” here.
American Golden Pictures did an interview with John 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. Purchase the book here. View library copies here.
John’s book of poems “The Green Notebook” is published by EPE Press in San Francisco. More info here and here.
John’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
John’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; and curated some of them into a Bay Area television show. Read more
Acting
John Angell Grant is also an actor. You can see samples of his work in the short films “How to Make Amends” and “Desert Harem.”
