Obituary for Michael T George
Born in 1953 in South Bend, Indiana. Moved to Santa Barbara, CA at the age of six. Survived an extremely rare form of colon cancer as a teenager. By the age of eighteen, he had committed himself to three life objectives: self-employment, frequent international travel and a career in the screen content business.
Attended Santa Barbara Community College for a year before transfering to UCLA–majoring in Motion Picture / Television, with a minor in Russian. Started his career with legendary American International Pictures in 1977. After a few years in domestic tv syndication, he moved to Embassy Pictures and became a specialist in the international distribution of American-made screen content. He frequently attended international film festivals and screen content market events (including 29 Cannes Film Festivals).
In 1985, he founded MTG MEDIA, originally as a tv program distributor and producer representative. In 1988, the principal emphasis became a database driven marketing business, while continuing to provide consultation services to buyers, sellers and creators of screen content. Moved to Hong Kong full-time in 2006, to Taipei in 2016 and mostly alternated between northern California, Montevideo (Uruguay) and Penang (Malaysia) thereafter.
To the end, his private passions included baseball, cooking, movies, classical music, travel and correspondence with good friends throughout the world. He is survived by his sister Katherine of Indianapolis and first cousin Richard Davis of North Star, Ohio.
