John Chappell Crissey III, also known as JC Crissey, is a

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movie producer best known for helping bring to screen '' ''Blinded'''' and ''That Samba Thing''.

Background

JC Crissey was born 30 January 1965 in Orlando, Florida to

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parents and raised in

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. He graduated from Forest Lake Academy high school, obtained a BBA from

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in 1987, an

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from Rollins College in 1990, a DipM from CIM in 1992, a FCIM Fellowship from

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in 1998 and a PhD in Media Arts Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before working in the motion-picture industry he worked for IBM as their

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Vice President for Global

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Solutions and for

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Consulting as their Senior Marketing Strategy Consultant in Europe. Since 1999 he has been the CEO of London Pictures Limited and was admitted into the

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as a Life Member in 2003 for his services to UK independent movie production.

Media academic

JC Crissey was also an Adjunct Lecturer at the

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from 2008 to 2014 and at the Media Arts Department,

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from 2010 to 2014. His unpublished PhD thesis is titled ''The UK low-budget film sector during the ‘digital revolution’ between 2000 and 2012: a quantitative assessment of its technological, economic and cultural characteristics''.

Partial filmography

* ''Blinded'' (2004), associate producer *'' Burning Light'' (2006), executive/co-producer *'' That Samba Thing'' (2007), producer * ''K'' (2008), producer * ''Doorways'' (2014), producerDoorways
- IMDb listing. Retrieved June 3, 2014.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crissey, John, III Living people 1965 births People from Orlando, Florida