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).
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