Michael Bavaro is a filmmaker and creative strategist based in Boston.
He grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and graduated from Fitchburg
State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a B.S. degree in
communications and received the "Communications Student of the Year
Award" for film and television. In 1980 while at Fitchburg he produced
a 16mm documentary film about his hometown of Milford. The film was
part of the bicentennial celebration and featured WBZ radio
personality, Larry Glick as the narrator.Working the entertainment
industry as an art director of broadcast promotion, Bavaro won several
awards for his work for the Walt Disney Company and the NBC network.In
1993 he established Digital Freeway, a new media company to design and
create digital entertainment content. Bavaro was one of the charter
members of the fledgling telco joint venture of TELE-TV formed by Bell
Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis. He was innovative in creating
several concepts that would become part of the lexicon of digital
media.He recently produced a one-hour documentary about his childhood
hero, Rex Trailer. The film titled, "Rex Trailer's Boomtown" was
broadcast on WBZ-TV in Boston and was nominated for a New England Emmy
award for best historical documentary. The broadcast master and
archives are now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of
Television & Radio in New York City.
He grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and graduated from Fitchburg
State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a B.S. degree in
communications and received the "Communications Student of the Year
Award" for film and television. In 1980 while at Fitchburg he produced
a 16mm documentary film about his hometown of Milford. The film was
part of the bicentennial celebration and featured WBZ radio
personality, Larry Glick as the narrator.Working the entertainment
industry as an art director of broadcast promotion, Bavaro won several
awards for his work for the Walt Disney Company and the NBC network.In
1993 he established Digital Freeway, a new media company to design and
create digital entertainment content. Bavaro was one of the charter
members of the fledgling telco joint venture of TELE-TV formed by Bell
Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis. He was innovative in creating
several concepts that would become part of the lexicon of digital
media.He recently produced a one-hour documentary about his childhood
hero, Rex Trailer. The film titled, "Rex Trailer's Boomtown" was
broadcast on WBZ-TV in Boston and was nominated for a New England Emmy
award for best historical documentary. The broadcast master and
archives are now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of
Television & Radio in New York City.
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