Emma Mankey Hidem was in eighth grade when she took her first video production class. She says she actually didn’t watch a lot of movies as a kid, she “wasn’t that film-geek kid,” but somehow, in that classroom, something clicked.

Mankey Hidem had always wanted to tell stories, but the words just didn’t flow quite right. In video, however, she found her medium. “I felt like a really had a knack for it,” she says.

Fast forward through the years and Mankey Hidem attends NYU film school before going on to work for a company in Atlanta that specialized in producing video for museums. It was there, in a project for the College Football Hall of Fame, that Mankey Hidem got her introduction to 360 video and virtual reality. She absolutely loved watching how viewers would respond to the new, immersive experience.

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