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Jonathan Blank is an entrepreneur, creative technologist, writer and filmmaker.

Jonathan is the founder and CEO of Wildform, an award-winning presentation, animation and video software company that created Flix, the first Flash video encoding software, which revolutionized the web video landscape with its release in 2000. Jonathan eventually sold the Flix product line to On2 Technologies. Today, much of the video that you see on the Internet is encoded with software originally developed by Wildform. Wildform's current flagship product is Flair -- a very powerful and easy to use multimedia presentation program. In addition to creating consumer software, Wildform has licensed its technology to leading companies such as Sony, Quark, Autodesk, and Adobe. (You can read a sampling of Wildform software reviews here.)

Among Jonathan's award-winning and critically acclaimed films are:

  • Sex, Drugs & Democracy ("A seductive argument" --Roger Ebert), an award-winning feature-length documentary and art-house hit that played theatrically in over 100 cities and grossed over $1 million. A copy of "Sex, Drugs & Democracy" was also sent to each member of Congress by a wealthy philanthropist interested in stimulating debate.
  • Anarchy TV ("A wild, crazy and twisted comedy!" --Jan Wahl of KRON-TV), a feature-length comedy starring Alan Thicke, George Wendt, Jessica Hecht and Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon and Diva Zappa.
  • Collecting America ("Fascinating…3 ½ stars" --Joseph Gelmis, New York Newsday), a one-hour documentary on the baseball collecting frenzy in America.
  • Karma Express, an award-winning shortshown nationally on MTV.
    (You can read a sampling of film reviews here.)

In addition, Jonathan has written and sold many articles and screenplays as well as co-authoring a book on Taoist philosophy and meditation, Still as a Mountain, Powerful as Thunder (Shambhala Publications). He is also an avid martial artist with over 20 years experience and currently serves as the Western Liaison for the Shaolin Temple in Los Angeles.

Jonathan received a BA in history, and an MFA in film from Columbia University.