Michael Bavaro
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Michael Bavaro is a filmmaker based in Manhattan. He grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and graduated from Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a B.S. degree in communications. 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. 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.