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Brunner, Garcia, Gerskovic and Stewart Receive Emmy® Awards for Video, "Rethinking Manufacturing"

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"Rethinking Manufacturing" is the story of two young individuals who are on the cutting edge of the new advance manufacturing revolution.

With support from America Makes (the first Manufacturing USA institute), Youngstown State University and the Youngstown Business Incubator, Ashley Totin and Zac Divencenzo are rethinking manufacturing, rethinking career choices, and rethinking the very idea of how we build and revitalize communities such as their own Youngstown, Ohio.

"Rethinking Manufacturing" received 3 Emmy® Awards:

  • Branded Content Program - Short Form (10 minutes or less)
    • Zara Brunner - Executive Producer
    • José Ricardo García - Producer/Writer
    • Leon Gerskovic - Producer
    • David Stewart - Color Correction/Graphics
  • Director-Non-Live (Post-Produced): José Ricardo García
  • Photographer - Program (non-news): David Stewart, Director of Photography
Rethinking Manufacturing
Rethinking Manufacturing
American manufacturing, once seen as the world’s icon of industrialization and then as a symbol of decline, is once again changing. Rethinking Manufacturing is the story of two young individuals who are on the cutting edge of that revolution. With support from America Makes (the first Manufacturing USA institute), Youngstown State University and the Youngstown Business Incubator, these entrepreneurs and their peers are rethinking manufacturing, rethinking career choices, and rethinking the very idea of how we build and revitalize communities.

Learn more about America Makes and Youngstown in this blog post by producer Zara Brunner.


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Created August 14, 2020