Affiliations: Movie Ink, Lakewood Advocate, Popcitizen.com
Twitter: @GaryDowell
Member: Rotten Tomatoes, DFWFCA
Gary Dowell graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Communications in 1998. He worked as a film critic and section editor at The Met and the Dallas Morning News until the print industry’s umpteenth round of layoffs sent him in a different direction in 2004. Since then he has worked full-time as a catalog copywriter and consignment director in the Music & Entertainment Memorabilia, Movie Posters, Comic Books, Vintage Guitars, and Rare Book departments of Heritage Auctions. He has freelanced for the Dallas Morning News, Lakewood Advocate, Lit Monthly, Dark Horizons, Pop Citizen, and Theater Jones, and has worked as a travel coordinator, copy writer, submissions screener, and volunteer for the USA Film Festival, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, and Dallas International Film Festival. He is currently a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.