Tom Blessing IV

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Thomas E. Blessing IV is an independent film and television producer and project manager from Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is known for his role as a production manager (line-producer) on the television series pilot Loveline (1996), [1] for his production management work with Dick Clark Productions [ citation needed ] and co-producing the experimental feature film Irish Whiskey (1997). [2] He co-produced the award-winning [3] documentary film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006). [4] Since September 2006 he has managed and developed musical touring acts including Boombox, The Werks, Fiddleworms and others. [5] Blessing co-created The Werk Out Music and Arts Festival (2010-2012) and manages live events such as Hookahville Music Festival, a popular event that has been produced twice a year since 1992 in Ohio and founded by the band Əkoostik_hookah. [6]

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Blessing consults, develops and manages talent and project-oriented business endeavors for entertainment and education through the company he and attorney Nathan J. Elter founded in 1997, AlchemyHouse Productions, Inc., based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. [7] The "co-operation" strives to provide access bridges and knowledge to new and existing talent and markets by integrating Collective intelligence models on projects. Blessing is a technical production consultant, cinematic [8] and still photographer. [9]

The grandson of a "Black March" survivor and World War II POW (Stalag Luft IV); [10] his father, Thomas E. Blessing III, is a past Greene County, Ohio, Commissioner [11] [12] and stockbroker; Blessing's mother, Jane, a lifelong school teacher. He grew up in rural Ohio, and graduated from Antioch University Midwest; earning a B.A. in the humanities and management majors and later received an M.A. in the team-based management program.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Loveline" (1996) – Full cast and crew
  2. ↑ Irish Whiskey – 1997 – John Bradford Pagano, Jon Stevens – Variety Profiles
  3. ↑ The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil – Best Documentary | New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2007 Archived December 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ The Power of Community (How Cuba survived peak oil) | Cinema Politica
  5. ↑ Athens Music Foundation Podcast – Athcast
  6. ↑ [https://www.dayton.com/events/concerts/worth-the-drive-hookahville-the-coolest-place-the-planet/NfX2WKKrT3mDUYN7rnKTOK/ |publisher=Dayton Daily News By Don Thrasher, Contributing Writer – dayton.com
  7. ↑ AlchemyHouse Productions, Inc. – Welcome!
  8. ↑ Lamson Library » The Power Of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
  9. ↑ "Tom Blessing IV".
  10. ↑ NARA – AAD – Display Full Records – World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 – 11/19/1946
  11. ↑ "Daily Gazette, Saturday, October 30, 1976 : Front Page". Daily Gazette – newspaperarchive.com › Home › Daily Gazette. October 30, 1976. Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Chairman wants to give Democrats more visibility". Dayton Daily News. September 28, 2006. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 – via highbeam.com.
  13. ↑ The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995) (TV)
  14. ↑ 31st Academy of Country Music Awards (1995) (TV)
  15. ↑ SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Party for the Planet (1995) (TV)
  16. ↑ Jerry Lewis Stars Across America (1995) (TV)
  17. ↑ Irish Whiskey (1997)
  18. ↑ The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006) – Green Planet Films
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