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About

Blake's feature editing debut, the documentary A House is Not a Disco, premiered at SXSW 2024 and screened at various prestigious film festivals, including NewFest, Inside Out, Frameline, and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Most recently, he's cut the short films Bodega and Hit Girl.

 

Blake has also worked in feature films as Additional Editor on Haze, Assistant Editor on Hold Your Breath and Greedy People, Additional Assistant Editor on Beau is Afraid, Apprentice Editor on Fire Island and The Beanie Bubble, and in episodic television as Assistant Editor on The Savant, Post Production Coordinator on Evil (Season 1) and Mr. Mayor (Season 1).

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Blake is the proud Associate Producer of Stephen Winter’s Jason and Shirley, which premiered at BAMcinemaFest and had a theatrical run at MoMA in 2015.

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Blake's narrative short Read Aloud had its world premiere at NewFest 2015, while his experimental short camchat screened at film festivals in the US, Canada, and Europe.

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His short documentary 20MALEGAYNYC  gained significant attention, featuring on Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish, The Advocate, and The Huffington Post, as well as international film festivals. A subsequent web series about young gay life, Male Gays, aired on LogoTV.com, followed by a UK spinoff titled 20MALEGAY. Blake’s short documentary for Logo TV about intergenerational dating among gay men has garnered  over 1.5 million views on YouTube.

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Blake holds a degree from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts ('15).

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Professional Experience

2024

Assistant Editor

2024

Editor

2023-2024

Editor

2023

Editor

2022-2023

First Assistant Editor

2022

Additional Assistant Editor

2022

Assistant Editor

2022

Apprentice Editor

2021-2022

Additional Editor

2021-2022

Apprentice Editor

2021

Assistant Editor

2019

Assistant Editor

2019

Assistant Editor

The Savant

Editor: Malcolm Jamieson

Bodega

Director: Sharik Anderson

A House is Not a Disco 

Director: Brian J. Smith

Hit Girl

Directors: Victoria Gluchoski, Thom Henke

Hold Your Breath

Directors: Karrie Crouse, William Joines

Editor: Brian Kates

Beau is Afraid

Director: Ari Aster

Editor: Lucian Johnston

Additional Editor: Max Berger

Greedy People

Director: Potsy Ponciroli

Editor: Jamie Kirkpatrick

The Beanie Bubble

Directors: Kristin Gore, Damian Kulash

Editor: Jane Rizzo 

Additional Editor: Kate Miller

Haze

Director: Matt Fifer

Fire Island

Director: Andrew Ahn

Editor: Brian Kates

Assistant Editor: Matthew Buckley

Land of Plenty

Director: Ben Patterson

Editor: Gabriela Tessitore   

The Big Bend

Director: Brett Wagner

Editor: Katie Ennis

Fyre Fraud

Directors: Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason

Editors: M. Brennan, Devin Concannon, Matt Prinzing, Matthew Prinzing  

Education

2011-2015

Film and Television Production; minor in Religious Studies

BFA with Honors

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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