GARY CONWAY

RECEIVES THE

THE RENAISSANCE MEDIA AWARD

Gary Conway has an extraordinary creative background from the fine arts to the arts

of viticulture and winemaking, it was in television where Gary first became recognized worldwide, initially starring in the TV series "Burke's Law," then "Land of the Giants,"

the world’s most successful TV series.  Besides starring in series and a multitude of episodic television shows and TV movies for the three networks, he starred in many

motion pictures.  He is also a prominent screenwriter with such credits as “Over the

Top,” and the “American Ninja” series.  He currently directed and starred in the

acclaimed film “Woman’s Story.”

Len Dell'Amico

LEN DELL'AMICO

RECEIVES

THE MUSIC IN MEDIA AWARD

Len Del'Amico directed and/or produced many concert films and music videos with such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, the Allman Brothers Band, Linda

Ronstadt, Blues Traveler, Carlos Santana, Ray Charles, Reuben Blades, Bonnie Raitt,

and of course, Grateful Dead. Len first worked with Grateful Dead in 1980 on "Dead

Ahead," the band's live TV broadcast and platinum home video. He was the band's "film and video guy" for the next 11 years. Dell'Amico and Jerry Garcia co-directed "So Far," the top-selling music video of 1988, which won the American Film Institute's award for

best long-form music program.

MICK JACKSON

RECEIVES

THE HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Mick Jackson recently won the Prime Time Emmy for outstanding directing for the HBO

movie "Temple Grandin", which swept the Emmy Awards with 7 wins. Jackson is from

England and started directing with the British documentaries "The Ascent of Man", "The

Age of Uncertainty" and "Connections" after becoming an editor for the BBC.  Jackson

made his American feature debut with the dark comedy "Chattahoochee" (1990) starring

Gary Oldman. Subsequent feature work includes the gentle and offbeat "L.A. Story"

with Steve Martin and "The Bodyguard" (1992), which paired Kevin Costner and Whitney

Houston.

Sasu Weh

SASUE WHE

RECEIVES

SAGE MEDIA AWARD

Dan Jones "Sasu Weh" was recently Chairman of the Ponca Nation, Oklahoma, and Vice Chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission.  He was a Field Producer on the Emmy nominated documentary 500 Nations, working with Kevin Costner. He worked for Disney Imagineering on the Disney America Project, and performed with Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne Newton at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Jones' TV productions include producing The World of American Indian Dance, which premiered on NBC.  Jones was the co-host and co-producer of the First Americans in the Arts awards.  In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the Assoc. of American Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.