Michael Bavaro is a filmmaker and creative strategist based in Boston.
Background
Born in 1959, he grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and graduated from Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Surgery degree in communications and received the "Communications Student of the Year Award" for film and television
Education
Fitchburg State University.
Career
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. In 1993 He established Digital Freeway, a new media company to design and create digital entertainment content.
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 broadcast master and archives are now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City.
Bavaro has recently finished a one-hour documentary film about the original Filene"s Basement in Boston titled, "Voices from the Basement." lieutenant premiered on May 10, 2010 in the rooftop ballroom of the Omni Parker House in Boston. Also in attendance was the great-grandson of A. Lincoln Filene, David Robertson.
Filmmaker Michael Bavaro was one of those kids who watched Rex Trailer on television, thought it was real and never forgot the memory of its magic.
"I grew up in Milford, Massachusetts and Boomtown was one of my first memories," he recalls. "I really believed it was the Wild West." He credits the show with sparking his interest in film and television
Membership
Bavaro was one of the charter members of the fledging telco joint venture of TELE-television formed by Bell Atlantic, New York-New England Exchange and Pacific Telesis.