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Date of Birth

23 February 1986, Clovis, California, USA

Birth Name

John Robert Blythe

Mini Biography

John Blythe is an independent film producer and entrepreneur with five years experience in the motion picture industry.

After graduating from Kern Valley High School in 2004, Blythe studied a year of The Art of Film at UC Berkley and then attained an Associates Degree from Cerro Coso College after studying Business Administration and Digital Film Production.

Blythe began working on film productions in 2005, starting out as a Co-Producer for Emmy Award winning filmmaker Charles L. Barbee on the PBS historical documentary "Wild West Country". Since then, he has worked in various capacities as Controller, Production Manager and Executive Producer on independently financed films in the United States and Canada.

Blythe is also the second majority stockholder president and CEO of Film Regions International, Inc. (FRI), a company that he originally founded in 2005 to network and consult with filmmakers worldwide for the purpose of financing, managing and producing low-budget independent films. During this time, he established partnerships and co-productions with filmmakers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South East Asia.

After the company's formal incorporation in 2009 with filmmaker Eric Walter and several other associates, which was implemented to sell private stock in order to achieve working capital, Blythe has continued management as CEO and is aiming to produce and represent high quality independent films for the U.S. market and festival circuit, while developing opportunities in the growing digital distribution platform.

His up coming projects that he has worked on as Producer include the comedy/action adventure film "Operation Mongoose", shot on location in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; and co-financing and co-producing "Rumah Dan Musin Hujan/One Day When the Rain Falls", which obtained the 2008 Hubert Bals Fund from the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and was filmed on location in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More recently, Blythe has been producing a new documentary feature "My Amityville Horror", concerning the untold story of the infamous Amityville haunted house case.

Blythe is a graduate of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) the Business and Management of Entertainment Program. He is committed to revitalizing independent film production, eager to form positive business relationships with filmmakers from a local and global perspective.

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Where Are They Now

(August 2008) Served as an Executive Producer on a film for Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment.

(January 2010) President of Film Regions International, Inc., an independent film production company based in Santa Monica, California.