The
Wind & Thunder Productions banner was born in June of 1998
when communications with the then head of HBO Original Programming
resulted in a request for Wind &
Thunder Production founder and principal, Patrick
A. Horton, to create and submit a proposal for a three-part special event
series and associated national media campaign to address and
impact trends in the media industry within a newly and rapidly
changing world. (see HBO
Addendum).
The
Story Coach - Practical Magic seminars and services (also at
thestorycoach.com) came into existence a couple of years later in
response to emerging and and largely unaddressed needs of creative professionals
and professional creators, both in and across multiple arenas involved in
the use or potential use of story, media, and strategic scenarios for applied social change.
These
two tandem entities will bridge their complementary missions and
overlapping endeavors shortly with the in-process revival of the
Conversations On Contemporary Media Project, a third identity or
entity embodying and promoting some of their more advocacy oriented
media and social resource development and project demonstration
efforts.