Photographer and videographer Mary Gunning ’18, along with a team at Forever Ready Productions, received a Midsouth Emmy in the societal concerns category for their documentary What We’ll Never Know. The ceremony for the 39th Nashville/Midsouth Emmy Awards, which is a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, was held Feb. 15.
According to the description of the documentary, which makes an argument for a law to protect children during police interrogations, “We'll never know what happened inside the interrogation room where a teen confessed to a crime he did not commit.”
Gunning served as camera operator on the project. She graduated from Rhodes in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Her minor was political science.
"What We'll Never Know played a key role in passing a law (SB1577) that requires police to record interrogations with minors in Tennessee,” said Gunning. “The vote was unanimous and bipartisan.”