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Dennis Conway considers himself a “Happy Hybrid” between the
video production and history/theory areas of academia. He
currently works as an
Associate Professor in the
Mass Media program at Valdosta State University in Valdosta,
Georgia. A New Jersey native, Dennis graduated from
Cornell University as a Government (Political Theory) major.
He later graduated from New York University’s Film & Television
Production Graduate School.
After years of working in
corporate media, public TV, video production houses and
independent film, Dennis wrote, directed, edited and produced a
feature film “Garden,” a screwball comedy which
played at film festivals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Afterward he took his first college teaching job, at Sam Houston
State University near Houston, Texas. Since then
Dennis has taught 23 different college classes, including
writing, performance, audio, studio, and field production, as
well as history, theory, research and graduate school courses.
Dennis has written 14 screenplays. His script, “Her
Gentle Touch” won Honors, and was the only screenplay
selected for the BEA’s (Broadcast Education Association) Journal
of Media Education “Creative” issue in October, 2017.
His script, “Multicultural,” won First Place in
the Short Story category from the UFVA (University Film and
Video Association) Writing Division in 2012.
Conway’s script, “Second Look,” won an Award of
Excellence from the BEA Writing Division in 2011.
His feature script, “Violent Nature,” won
another Award of Excellence from the BEA in 2008. It
also won a Chesterfield Contest award as a Semi-Finalist.
Dennis’s other films include “Good Country People,”
an adaptation of a famous American comedic short story, “Advised,”
a short comedy about an ambitious student, and two
documentaries, “Undertones: Music from the New York City
Subways,” a piece about diversity among N.Y.C. subway
performers, and “New York City Christmas Windows,”
a music video about department store displays. A new
documentary in progress, “Time Machine,” will
profile the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome living airplane museum and
air show in Rhinebeck, New York.
Dennis has also been
published ten times in BEA academic journals, three of which
researched film festivals, and one of which researched U.S.
State Film Board incentives. That last piece, “Are
Incentives from U.S. State Film Offices to Media Productions
Worth the Money?” won Honors from the BEA (Broadcast
Education Association), and was included in their 2013
“Scholar-to-Scholar” poster board session by the PAC
(Production, Aesthetics, and Criticism) Division.
Another
publication included an essay on the film, “School of Rock,” in
the book, “Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned from
Teachers on Television and in the Movies,” edited by
Dr. Mary Dalton and Dr. Laura Linder. (Peter Lang Publishing,
2017)
Conway has served as past Chair of the BEA Writing
Division, and Chair of the BEA PAC Division Faculty Video
Production contest. He is a regular moderator and
panelist at the national yearly conferences of the Broadcast
Education Association, and University Film and Video
Association. Conway also serves as a contributor and respondent
for creative pieces at the UFVA’s yearly conference.
He has also served as writing reviewer for the BEA’s Journal of
Media Education, and as a faculty portfolio consultant for the
UFVA. (Updated August, 2018)
"I
feel lucky to live in the Digital Age, in which students and
teachers can create dramatic films on modest budgets, and make
their characters come alive."
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