Grant Douglas Bromley

Grant Douglas Bromley is an American independent filmmaker and film scholar from Knoxville, TN. His academic study of cinema began in 2010 as a fellow of the TN Governor's School for The Arts. The next year, Grant moved to Nashville to study Film with an emphasis in Screenwriting at Watkins College of Art, from which he received his BFA in 2015. After that, he went on to earn his MA in Film Studies from Columbia University in 2018 upon completing his graduate thesis on Calvinism in relation to the representation of sin in secular cinema, entitled Sinema: A Cinema of Transcendent Immorality. Grant Douglas Bromley has written and co-directed two feature films with fellow graduates of Watkins College of Art, Dreams of the Wayward (2013) with Benjamin S. Neal, which premiered at the inaugural 2013 Knoxville Film Festival as an official feature selection; and Quit While We're Behind (2018) with Julian Ralston, which was improvised from a treatment and shot over a span of five days.