M. Blash

M. Blash
Born	1978 (age 46–47)[1] California, U.S.
Occupations	Film director screenwriter actor

M. Blash (born 1978) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He has written and directed several independent films, including the improvisational drama Lying (2006),[2] and the dramatic thriller The Wait (2013).

Biography

Blash was born in 1978 in southern California, and raised in Portland, Oregon.[3] He attended New York University and the School of Visual Arts, as well as Charles University in Prague.[1]

His directorial debut, Lying (2006), was completed for a budget of $150,000 in upstate New York, and starred Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, and Leelee Sobieski.[1] The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5] In 2007, he had a minor role in Gus van Sant's Paranoid Park.[6] Blash directed the music video for "Money" by The Drums.[7]

Blash is also a visual artist, and has exhibited his drawings at the Bullseye Gallery in Portland.[6] In 2008, a series of his drawings were published in The New York Times.[4] His second film, the supernatural drama The Wait (2013), also starred Sevigny and Malone, as well as Luke Grimes and Josh Hamilton.[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006	Lying	—	Director and writer	[9]
2007	Paranoid Park	Math Teacher		[6]
2008	Wendy and Lucy	Dan
2009	Sibling Topics (Section A)	Porn Foreign Peopled
2013	The Wait	—	Director and writer	[9]
2016	Kitty	Cop	Short film

References

1. "M. Blash". FestivalScope. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
2. "Master of Ceremonies". Interview. August 26, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
3. "M. Blash". Deauville American Film Festival (in French). Archived from the original on June 20, 2019.
4. "The Insider: M. Blash". The New York Times. January 22, 2008. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
5. Thompson, Anne (May 22, 2006). "Rookie helmer slides into Fortnight". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 5, 2007.
6. "'Impossible Instruments' at Fourteen30 and 'Tension' at Bullseye Gallery". The Oregonian. January 8, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
7. "The Drums: Money". Nowness. July 25, 2011. Archived from the original on June 16, 2023. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
8. Catsoulis, Jeannette (January 31, 2014). "A Study of Sublimated Grief". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014.
9. "M. Blash Filmography". AllMovie. Retrieved June 20, 2019.

External links

• M. Blash at IMDb