Congratulations to the 2024 On-Location Faculty Creative Winners!
BEA’s 2024 On-Location faculty competition received 25 faculty submissions across 6 competitions.  The acceptance rate for Best of Show is 20% and Award of Excellence was 44%. Best of Show and Award of Excellence was not awarded in all competitions. In order to maintain a respectable acceptance rate, awards are designated in competitions when the number of entries and/or total score received exceeds certain thresholds. Best of Show winners will have an opportunity to participate in a creative competition panel at the 2024 On-Location conference. Please click on the links of the Best of Show winners to watch and hear the winning work.

Audio Competition

Best of Show: Dutch Hoggatt, Harding University; Artist Spotlight – Lead Belly

Awards of Excellence:
Jason Lee Guthrie, Clayton State University; Recollecting Carter

Jeffrey Schiffman, York College of Pennsylvania; Build A Kid

Documentary Competition

Best of Show: Larry Foley, University of Arkansas-School of Journalism and Strategic Media; Cries from the Cotton Field

Award of Excellence: Bernard “Barney” McCoy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Running Towards the Fire – A War Correspondent’s Story.

Award of Excellence: Karen Bullis, Austin Peay State University; Flag Football

Film & Video Competition

Best of Show: Jaime Jacobsen, Rhea Maze, Eric Forbes, Matthew Ross & Russick Smith, Colorado State University; Hold Our Ground

Award of Excellence: Allie Sultan, Bess Rogers & Marie Barnas, Middle Tennessee State University; We Do IT All

Interactive Multimedia & Emerging Technologies Competition

Best of Show: Zoe Patrick & Ringo Jones, University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Bentonville360

Open Competition

Best of Show: Dennis P. Conway, Valdosta State University; Juliet

Sports Competition

Award of Excellence: Emily Rund, York College of Pennsylvania; Women’s Wrestling at YCP