K.C. CONWAY
Has been telling stories since he was five years old.
Inspired by seeing the original 1977 Star Wars on VHS when he was a child, K.C. embarked on a life-long journey to become a storyteller. Home-schooled by his mother, a retired teacher, K.C. grew up in a unique learning environment. Encouraged to pursue creativity in both art and science, K.C. quickly became obsessed with creating stories.
By age eight, K.C. had crafted dozens of spin-off novels and short stories, heavily inspired by the fantastical science fiction and fantasy worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and countless others. He also began writing poetry, and by thirteen won a number of poetry contests and youth awards, including for Poetry.com, the Ventura County Arts Council, and the Los Angeles Poetry Society.
K.C.'s creativity also spread heavily into classical music during middle school and high school. A classically trained concert pianist, K.C. won numerous awards across California, including the Southern California Junior Bach Festival, California Youth Symphony, NFMC Junior Music Festival, and was a featured soloist for the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra. He performed at world famous venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, and Royce Hall at UCLA.
Not content to just create in one or two fields, however, K.C. also pursued academics simultaneously.
As an avid public speaker, he won dozens of awards for his speaking prowess in the California High School Speech Association tournaments as a parliamentary debater, including two State championships. He was also awarded Best Defense Attorney for the Ventura County Mock Trial competition, and turned down numerous job offers from professional attorneys, including notable defense attorney Ron Bamieh. Graduating as salutatorian of his high school, K.C. was accepted to a number of prestigious universities, including Stanford, USC, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Northwestern, and others.
However, K.C.'s heart had returned to storytelling. Discovering the works of 60s and 70s auteur filmmaking masters Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others, K.C. realized that filmmaking and visual storytelling was the only way to fully create the magnificent worlds and visions living in his head. Abandoning the Ivy League for the grounded, outside-the-box educational approach of the University of California, Santa Cruz, K.C. pursued filmmaking full time while working on perfecting his skills in screenwriting.
At Santa Cruz, K.C. was one of the early members of the school's Film Production Coalition, where he studied with the great film editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation) and sound designer Randy Thom (Cast Away, Forrest Gump) who inspired him to push his creative filmmaking skills to the limit. He wrote and directed dozens of short films along with directing his first feature narrative at the age of 20, which was lauded as "an outstanding micro-budget achievement in sound." Graduating from UCSC early, K.C. plunged headfirst into the Los Angeles film industry, where he began working as an editorial assistant for Academy Award® Nominated filmmaker Roko Belic and Academy Award® Winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
K.C. worked tirelessly in the film industry for over a decade, jumping between sets and backlots as a production assistant on countless independent and studio films. He was also a freelance editor, colorist, and sound designer for companies including Universal Studios, Discovery, and Warner Brothers, along with hundreds of indie productions. He was also a tour guide on the world famous Universal Studios Tour - just for fun!
Along with working in film, K.C. also continued his writing pursuits, placing several screenplays in the quarter and semi-finals of the Nichol Fellowship, Page Screenplay Awards, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
One of K.C.'s scripts "Green Valley" was later developed by notable indie production company A24, and his writing work has been optioned by Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, and 20th Century Fox. Although none of the projects managed to come to fruition, he has continued the long journey towards becoming a produced screenwriter.
In 2020, K.C. opened his own post production company C4 Studios, the only micro-budget focused studio in Los Angeles, where he has since worked on award-winning films that have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, TIFF, Palm Springs, as well as distributed internationally on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Tubi, including the Sundance Award Winning feature MUTT (Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman) and Sundance Award Winner OH, HI! (Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman).
His latest sound design work is featured in director Alex Heller's short film "You Know You Wanna Stay," which won the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2025 Palm Springs Shortsfest and was featured on Short of the Week. He is also an award winning sound designer, picking up accolades at the Toronto Documentary and Short Film Festival, the Dublin Movie Awards, and the AmDocs Film Festival.
K.C. is currently hard at work expanding C4 Studios and the burgeoning artist collective Community Four, which he describes as "a collaborative art collective for artists who work both inside and outside the mainstream."
He is also continuing his filmmaking journey, beginning pre-production on a documentary about his father, the fine art photographer Jim Fitzgerald, who is the world's leading expert in carbon transfer printing, a historic photographic printing process from the 1870s and 1880s. Jim is one of a handful of photographers preserving the lost art of the fully analogue image-making process, from crafting handmade wooden view cameras to hand-printing bespoke photographs on custom papers. Jim pioneered the creation of carbon transfer text-making for fine art bookbinding, and to date is the only person in the world to have created a book fully printed using the carbon transfer process.
K.C. is also working on developing another narrative feature film, as well as a Youtube channel dedicated to his short films and lyrical poetry pieces.
When not continuing to pursue his visual ideas, K.C. is also hard at work publishing his first novel and crafting short stories, poetry, and essays on Substack. He also continues developing numerous screenplays, as well as a podcast called Critical Thoughts - a place to discuss everything from film criticism, cultural critiques, philosophy, art, science, politics, and critical thinking.
Despite his many interests and vast array of professional pursuits, everything ultimately comes back to his love for storytelling. K.C. remains dedicated to changing the world with stories, and firmly believe that art has the power to not just entertain, but to change how people view, experience, and interact with the world. To quote the noted film critic Roger Ebert, "empathy is the most essential quality of civilization...and for me, the movies like a machine that generates empathy."
K.C. sees movies, and all storytelling, as a way to let people experience other perspectives. "Art was pivotal in shaping who I am as a person," he says. "Without it, I would not be the man I am today. Just as Atticus Finch said in To Kill A Mockingbird - 'you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it,' so too do I firmly believe that the only way to move human civilization forward is to create this fundamental understanding. All the art I create is a way of moving forward, searching for meaning, beauty, and understanding in a broken, uncertain world."
K.C. CONWAY
Has been telling stories since he was five years old.
Inspired by seeing the original 1977 Star Wars on VHS when he was a child, K.C. embarked on a life-long journey to become a storyteller. Home-schooled by his mother, a retired teacher, K.C. grew up in a unique learning environment. Encouraged to pursue creativity in both art and science, K.C. quickly became obsessed with creating stories.
By age eight, K.C. had crafted dozens of spin-off novels and short stories, heavily inspired by the fantastical science fiction and fantasy worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and countless others. He also began writing poetry, and by thirteen won a number of poetry contests and youth awards, including for Poetry.com, the Ventura County Arts Council, and the Los Angeles Poetry Society.
K.C.'s creativity also spread heavily into classical music during middle school and high school. A classically trained concert pianist, K.C. won numerous awards across California, including the Southern California Junior Bach Festival, California Youth Symphony, NFMC Junior Music Festival, and was a featured soloist for the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra. He performed at world famous venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, and Royce Hall at UCLA.
Not content to just create in one or two fields, however, K.C. also pursued academics simultaneously.
As an avid public speaker, he won dozens of awards for his speaking prowess in the California High School Speech Association tournaments as a parliamentary debater, including two State championships. He was also awarded Best Defense Attorney for the Ventura County Mock Trial competition, and turned down numerous job offers from professional attorneys, including notable defense attorney Ron Bamieh. Graduating as salutatorian of his high school, K.C. was accepted to a number of prestigious universities, including Stanford, USC, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Northwestern, and others.
However, K.C.'s heart had returned to storytelling. Discovering the works of 60s and 70s auteur filmmaking masters Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others, K.C. realized that filmmaking and visual storytelling was the only way to fully create the magnificent worlds and visions living in his head. Abandoning the Ivy League for the grounded, outside-the-box educational approach of the University of California, Santa Cruz, K.C. pursued filmmaking full time while working on perfecting his skills in screenwriting.
At Santa Cruz, K.C. was one of the early members of the school's Film Production Coalition, where he studied with the great film editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation) and sound designer Randy Thom (Cast Away, Forrest Gump) who inspired him to push his creative filmmaking skills to the limit. He wrote and directed dozens of short films along with directing his first feature narrative at the age of 20, which was lauded as "an outstanding micro-budget achievement in sound." Graduating from UCSC early, K.C. plunged headfirst into the Los Angeles film industry, where he began working as an editorial assistant for Academy Award® Nominated filmmaker Roko Belic and Academy Award® Winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
K.C. worked tirelessly in the film industry for over a decade, jumping between sets and backlots as a production assistant on countless independent and studio films. He was also a freelance editor, colorist, and sound designer for companies including Universal Studios, Discovery, and Warner Brothers, along with hundreds of indie productions. He was also a tour guide on the world famous Universal Studios Tour - just for fun!
Along with working in film, K.C. also continued his writing pursuits, placing several screenplays in the quarter and semi-finals of the Nichol Fellowship, Page Screenplay Awards, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
One of K.C.'s scripts "Green Valley" was later developed by notable indie production company A24, and his writing work has been optioned by Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, and 20th Century Fox. Although none of the projects managed to come to fruition, he has continued the long journey towards becoming a produced screenwriter.
In 2020, K.C. opened his own post production company C4 Studios, the only micro-budget focused studio in Los Angeles, where he has since worked on award-winning films that have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, TIFF, Palm Springs, as well as distributed internationally on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Tubi, including the Sundance Award Winning feature MUTT (Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman) and Sundance Award Winner OH, HI! (Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman).
His latest sound design work is featured in director Alex Heller's short film "You Know You Wanna Stay," which won the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2025 Palm Springs Shortsfest and was featured on Short of the Week. He is also an award winning sound designer, picking up accolades at the Toronto Documentary and Short Film Festival, the Dublin Movie Awards, and the AmDocs Film Festival.
K.C. is currently hard at work expanding C4 Studios and the burgeoning artist collective Community Four, which he describes as "a collaborative art collective for artists who work both inside and outside the mainstream."
He is also continuing his filmmaking journey, beginning pre-production on a documentary about his father, the fine art photographer Jim Fitzgerald, who is the world's leading expert in carbon transfer printing, a historic photographic printing process from the 1870s and 1880s. Jim is one of a handful of photographers preserving the lost art of the fully analogue image-making process, from crafting handmade wooden view cameras to hand-printing bespoke photographs on custom papers. Jim pioneered the creation of carbon transfer text-making for fine art bookbinding, and to date is the only person in the world to have created a book fully printed using the carbon transfer process.
K.C. is also working on developing another narrative feature film, as well as a Youtube channel dedicated to his short films and lyrical poetry pieces.
When not continuing to pursue his visual ideas, K.C. is also hard at work publishing his first novel and crafting short stories, poetry, and essays on Substack.
He also continues developing numerous screenplays, as well as a podcast called Critical Thoughts - a place to discuss everything from film criticism, cultural critiques, philosophy, art, science, politics, and critical thinking.
Despite his many interests and vast array of professional pursuits, everything ultimately comes back to his love for storytelling. K.C. remains dedicated to changing the world with stories, and firmly believe that art has the power to not just entertain, but to change how people view, experience, and interact with the world. To quote the noted film critic Roger Ebert, "empathy is the most essential quality of civilization...and for me, the movies like a machine that generates empathy."
K.C. sees movies, and all storytelling, as a way to let people experience other perspectives.
"Art was pivotal in shaping who I am as a person," he says. "Without it, I would not be the man I am today. Just as Atticus Finch said in To Kill A Mockingbird - 'you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it,' so too do I firmly believe that the only way to move human civilization forward is to create this fundamental understanding. All the art I create is a way of moving forward, searching for meaning, beauty, and understanding in a broken, uncertain world."
