James Allan Moyé

BA, East Carolina University; MFA, University of New Orleans

Assistant Professor of Film, Director of Film Minor, and Director of Studios Allan Moyé has taught film courses at Mary Baldwin University for over 20 years, including video production classes, film studies, and screenwriting. He received his undergraduate degree from East Carolina University. He studied screenwriting at Georgetown University and UCLA, filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, and has had extensive training in audio production. He earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing for Film from the University of New Orleans, in which program he studied under filmmaker Miroslav Mandic in Prague, Czech Republic.

Moyé has also taught screenwriting for the University of New Orleans’ Low Residency MFA program and has been an instructor at UNO’s Summer Seminars in Madrid, Spain.

He is a three-time recipient of the Governor’s Award for Screenwriting at the Virginia Festival of American Film and has won awards from America’s Best Screenplay competition and the Wisconsin Screenwriter’s Forum. Two of his narrative screenplays, “The Blue Man” and “The Good Neighbor” have been optioned in Hollywood. Moyé has produced and directed various short films and been a contributor to many narrative and documentary projects. He is front man and songwriter for the rock ‘n roll band, The Findells.