John Angell Grant is a writer/director/actor from Palo Alto, California.
Films
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. You can watch “Lurk” here.
His earlier short film “Desert Harem” won multiple film festival awards, including the Gold Award for Drama at the Paris Film 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 18 awards, including “Best Micro Film” at the Vienna Indie Short Film Awards; “Best Micro Short” at the Philadelphia International Filmmaker Awards; “Best Comedy Short” at the Focus International Film Festival; and “Best Indie Super Short Film” at the 8 & Halfilm Awards, a festival in honor of Fellini’s masterpiece “8 1/2.” You can see “Two Stoners: here.
John’s short film, “1958” won nine awards, including “Best Super Short Film” at the Hollywood Gold Awards; “Best Cast” at the Couch Film Festival; “Gold Award for Best Super Short Film” at the Florence Film Festival. You can see the film here.
American Golden Pictures did an interview with John here.
Poetry
John’s book of poems, “The Green Notebook,” is published by EPE Press, in San Francisco. More info here and here (press release) and here.
You can read reviews of “The Green Notebook” 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
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. 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.”
