Check out: Dickerson Park Zoo’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/dpzoo

A Web Series on Dickerson Park Zoo & Friends of the Zoo Wins Student Emmy under the Leadership of Jon Mabee- Associate Professor of Film & Television.

This nine-episode web series, Discovering Dickerson Park Zoo, the Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, and Film at Missouri State University filmed and edited by students in the Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, and Film won a Student Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Science.

The students, spent three weeks filming at Dickerson Park Zoo in 2023. The episodes take viewers behind-the-scenes as well as highlight the animals, zookeepers, events, education programs, zoo medicine, staff, and animal care at the zoo.

The specific episode “Medicine of Dickerson Park Zoo” won a Student Emmy Award for Best College Non-Fiction Long Form and won second place in the category Video Documentary from Missouri Broadcast Education Association. The episode, “Education of Dickerson Park Zoo” received a Student Emmy nomination for Best College Non-Fiction Short Form.

The Emmy-award winning episode, Medicine of Dickerson Park Zoo, was edited by Trevor Huck and Jacob Lenhardt. Series credits include: executive producers, Jon Mabee and Joey Powell; producer, Lucy Atwood; directors, Jon Mabee and Autumn Girgin.

All episodes may be viewed on Dickerson Park Zoo’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/dpzoo

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