Conner De Mita is a writer/director from Los Angeles. His work focuses on the eerie and uncomfortable, told through an experimental, genre-driven lens. De Mita is partially deaf, which (somewhat) explains his interest in isolated characters struggling to connect. He graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Film and Television, also participating in their experimental film program in Paris. After moving back to his hometown of Los Angeles, he worked for two years in production and localization for a number of studios including Netflix and HBO. He then received his MFA from the AFI Conservatory as a Directing Fellow. His first short, BROTHER X, competed at the 2019 Vancouver Queer Film Festival. He was a Telluride Film Lab Fellow (2022) and ScreenCraft Finalist with his AFI thesis film, WAKE, currently running the festival circuit.