Harold Blank

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      Harold Blank is an American movie theatre owner. His company HLB Entertainment owns and operates two cinemas in Burlington, Vermont, the Majestic 10 and Palace 9.

      Blank has been a partner of The Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF) since 2008. Until 2010 he served as Festival Programmer alongside The Board of Directors of VTIFF. His Palace 9 Cinema hosted the 2009 & 2010 Festivals.[1] In 2009, Blank initiated the first VTIFF Person of Year Award presented to a Vermont resident who is committed to excellence in the motion picture industry—honoring Luis Guzmán.[2]

      Blank started his career in the entertainment industry in the late 1960s while attending college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He provided psychedelic light shows for bands like Jimi Hendrix and Cream (band) at club a called The Factory in Madison Wisconsin. After graduation he started working in a movie theatre and worked his way up to managing theaters, becoming a film buyer to eventually owning cinemas in Boston in the late 1970s and 1980s.[3]

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      1. ^ http://www.vtiff.org/about/ Vermont International Film Festival Staff
      2. ^ http://www.pressrepublican.com/0500_what_to_do/local_story_295063540.html The PressRepublican, retrieved October 22, 2009
      3. ^ http://www.nthword.com/issue5/Interview_Harold_Blank.php nthWORD Magazine, accessed February 6, 2010
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