Geoffrey Kleinman
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Geoffrey Kleinman is the founder of Kleinman.com the company which started and ultimately sold "DVD TalkDVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.The site started as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of DVD news and reviews...
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After graduating with a B.S. in Cinema Photography from Ithaca College
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...
in 1992, Kleinman moved to Los Angeles to work an editor. Following short stints at CAA
CAA
-Arts:*China Academy of Art, the highest university of art in China which founded in 1928*College Art Association, a professional association in the United States for scholars of art, art history, and art criticism...
, and as an assistant editor on the film The Last Shot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173976/, he moved to Portland Oregon to work in Internet technology.
In Portland he worked at Vulcan's Forge Multimedia (one of the first Web Design companies in Portland, Oregon) http://web.archive.org/web/19970415141145/http://www.vulcansforge.com/, from there he moved to One World Internetworking http://web.archive.org/web/19961101204806/http://www.oneworld.com/ and early Internet Service Provider focused on business hosting.
In 1995 while working at One World Internetworking he started his first online venture which was initially called The Bi-Weekly Business Internet Report but after a few issues became The Kleinman Report which helped evangelize business use of the internet. In 1995 Geoffrey covered Internet World http://www.kleinman.com/kreport/iworld.html where a young David Filo
David Filo
David Filo is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.Until the company decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server...
and Jerry Yang (still students at Stanford) were publicly showing off, for the first time their search engine Yahoo
In 1996 he was recruited by Intel as an Internet Marketing Project Manager where he worked on the Intel Internet Connection Wizard for Proshare technology which was ultimately integrated into the release of Windows 98
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...
. After a corporate reorganization he was tasked with development for the “Intel Owner’s Club”, an online community aimed at building affinity with Intel with owners of Intel products. That project was the predecessor for The Intel Web Outfitters Service IWOS, a multi-million dollar venture.
On January 20, 1995, Geoffrey Kleinman launched DVD Talk
DVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.The site started as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of DVD news and reviews...
which began as a small DVD news site and forum. Over the course of 8½ years the site grew from a 'one man band' to a full fledged online magazine with a staff of 60 writers http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/reviewers.php. In September 2007 DVD Talk
DVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.The site started as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of DVD news and reviews...
was sold to Internet Brands
Internet Brands
Internet Brands is a new media company based in El Segundo, California that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The company also develops and licenses internet software and social media applications....
During his time at DVD Talk
DVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market.The site started as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of DVD news and reviews...
, Geoffrey Kleinman contributed to various independent film projects, including serving as a post-production and distribution adviser on The Puffy Chair
The Puffy Chair
The Puffy Chair is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. It screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement...
(2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436689/ http://www.duplassbrothers.com/home.html, Film Geek
Film Geek
Film Geek is a 2005 independent film written and directed by James Westby and starring Melik Malkasian as Scotty Pelk. The story revolves around Pelk's life as a super film geek and a love interest that develops with a girl named Niko ....
(2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443506/ http://www.scottysfilmpage.com/ and 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
(2006).
He's also been active in both covering film festivals, as well as speaking at them, most recently participating in “So You Made a Film, Now What?” at Oregon’s prestigious BendFilm Festival
BendFilm Festival
BendFilm Festival is an Oregon-based annual film festival established in 2004. It focuses on independent films. The BendFilm festival also includes filmmaking lectures and events.-External links:* *...
http://www.indiefilmradio.com/bendfilm_2006_bend_film_festiv.html http://www.indiefilmradio.com/bendfilm_2006_festival_wrap_up.html (2007). He is also regularly asked to serve on selection committees and juries for film exhibitions and festivals such as Pine Film http://www.livableplace.org/pine.htm and BendFilm http://www.bendfilm.org/
Geoffrey Kleinman is considered a professional source for the home entertainment industry and has often been cited as an expert opinion, especially in regards to the HD format war.
In 2011 Geoffrey Kleinman was selected as a Judge for the San Francisco World Spirits Competition http://www.sfspiritscomp.com/pdfs/PressSP11.pdf and was cited as a "renowned journalist"
Kleinman currently resides in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
with his wife Heather and three children - Hannah, Aaron and Ivy.
Books and Plays
He has contributed to several books: "Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting (Solutions)" by Michael GeogheganMichael Geoghegan
Michael Geoghegan CBE is an English businessman, who served as HSBC Group's chief executive from 26 March 2006 to 2010. He joined HSBC in 1973 and has previously led the group's South American and European operations.-Early life:...
and Dan Klass
Dan Klass
right|thumb| Dan Klass in the video podcast pilotDan Klass is an American actor, comedian and podcaster. He is the co-author of Podcast Solutions...
, "Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy" by Nick Usborne, and Poor Richard's Email Publishing (with Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo
Christopher Joseph Pirillo is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, which is a network of blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help, where he also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon...
). He was thanked in DF Walker's novel Darius Logan: Super Justice Force.
In 2007, Geoffrey Kleinman's one act play “Love Connect” http://www.kleinman.com/geoff/LoveConnect.pdf was produced as part of a one-act play showcase by Toy Boat Productions in Portland http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8999405288018688799&hl=en.
Radio
From late 2007 to early 2008 Geoffrey appeared weekly on KNRKKNRK
KNRK is a commercial Modern AC-leaning Alternative rock music radio station in Portland, OR, broadcasting to the Portland, Oregon area on 94.7 FM...
with a segment called “Alternative Movie Picks,” showcasing indie films in theaters and on DVD. In Early 2008 he covered the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
for the nationally-syndicated Air America
Air America Radio
Air America was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk programming...
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/hartmann/HartmannShow-(22-1-2008)b.mp3.
Blogs and writing
In 2009 Geoffrey Kleinman launched On Portland covering arts, entertainment, food, drink and living in Portland, OregonPortland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. He also serves as a contributor to Neighborhood Notes and Twitters under both @GeoffK @onportland
In early 2010 Geoffrey launched Drink Spirits a gude to distilled spirits, whiskey, bourbon, micro distilleries and cocktails.
In June of 2011, Geoffrey began freelance writing for Tasting Panel Magazine, and debuted with the piece Pisco, Take Too in the June 2011 Issue