ROSEBORO — Chris Grady still remembers being a child at Bright Beginnings preschool when his parents gave him a small VTech video camera. At the time, he did not know anything about filmmaking or the craft of storytelling. He only knew that he wanted to point that little plastic camera at people and moments that mattered to him. One of the first things he recorded was his Sunday teacher leading a Bible study at church.
That instinct to preserve, to take what was happening around him and hold it inside a frame, became the foundation of who he is today.
Grady, who many in his hometown grew up knowing as Mackenzie Grady, is now stepping fully into his identity as Chris Grady, a rising filmmaker whose short film Generational has been winning awards on the film festival circuit in the United States and overseas…