Multi media executive and filmmaker Dallas Tanner journey started from a small New England town where he chopped fire wood to work his way to college, all the way to tinsletown where he worked his way up to work with some of Hollywood's leading entertainment executives and celebrity talent. Dallas Tanner, was born in a family of eight children. His father was a self employed contractor and his mother was a journalist and full time mother. His grandparents and many relatives were 'Ivy League' graduates, acclaimed publishers, patented inventors, poets, writers, artists and scholars. A self proclaimed "nature boy", he grew up on a 66 acre farm in New England and paid his way to college by working as a lumberjack selling split firewood his first few years of college. He played running back on the football team in college as a "walk on", played semi professional football in the EFL, and joined the United States Marine Corps Officers Program ( PLC-Platoon Leaders Class) while in college. He was one of only approximately 100 Marine Corps Officer Candidates to pass all academic and stringent physical requirements to be accepted to the prestigous and elite Naval Aviation school in Pensacola, Florida where top gun fighter pilots are trained each year. He declined to take a full time career in the United States Marines because while in college, he had taken $500 in savings and started a highway and pipeline construction company that grew rapidly to over $5.0 million a year by the time Mr. Tanner was just 25 years old. His company built heavy construction projects for the Army, Navy, FAA, USAF and constructed notable projects as the first radar facility (ASR-9) at Nantucket Airport so that private jets could finally start landing there. His company was the first official company to break ground on the largest construction project in America's history; "The Big Dig" when his company mobilized heavy earthmovers to break up ground on Deere Island, located out in the Boston Harbour. By rare circumstances he met future billionaire and media mogul Sumner Redstone who lived in Boston at the time , and who offered to invest in Mr. Tanner's company at a lunch meeting arranged by a mutual advisor . Reluctant to have other "unknown outsiders" in his fledging company, he hesitated to have Summer Redstone invest in his company. Summer Redsone later became head of one of the largest media companies in the world ( Viacom which owns CBS, MTV, and many other entertainment companies) and one of the wealthiest men in the world. While in Boston Tanner started getting training in television from Boston's BNN Television, a neighborhood television network ,and began to grow his interests in television and film production.Ambitous to succeed in the media industry, Mr. Tanner later moved to Southern California to persue a career in film and television production studying part time at both The American Film Institute as well as UCLA, taking classes in film studies. His workshops were headed by some of the greatest directors in the world, including two time Oscar Winning director Clint Eastwood. While in California Mr. Tanner headed up several start up media ventures including publishing a Hawaiian based surfing and bodyboarding magazine, advised a top nationally distributed music magazine, advised New York's NYC Magazine, and took the helm of an extreme sports company which delivered extreme sports television programs to broadcasters including affiliates of Fox Sports. He got into motorsports when he was asked to head up marketing and sponsorship for a NASCAR racing team and he entered training and development as a semi professional race car driver driving on many race tracks on the Western United States. For several years, he struggled to enter into the super competitive television and entertainment industry in Hollywood, having several companies go out of business that he was attempting to launch with others. In 2001 he produced a televised benefit concert in tribute to the firefighters and heroes from the World Trade Center
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