Blake Mawson
Blake Mawson (born April 24, 1984) is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.[1] He is most noted as director of the short film Pyotr495, for which he won the Emerging Artist Award at the 2016 Inside Out Film and Video Festival[2] and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series.[3]
As an actor, he had a starring role in Gore, Quebec, as well as small parts in the films X2, Freddy vs. Jason, Poison Ivy: The Secret Society and Nurse 3D, and the television series Sk8, Cold Squad, The Evidence, Blade and The Strain.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mawson is a graduate of the Directors' Lab program at the Canadian Film Centre.[4] His feature film debut, tentatively titled The Viridian, is in development and was selected for Inside Out's 2020 Finance Forum.[5]
References
- ^ a b "The Horrors of “PYOTR495”: An Interview with Blake Mawson". Film International, June 21, 2016.
- ^ "Closet Monster Wins at Inside Out". Northern Stars, June 7, 2016.
- ^ "Blake Mawson". Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, February 7, 2019.
- ^ "CFC names film program residents". Playback, July 7, 2017.
- ^ Leo Barraclough, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Reveals Finance Forum Lineup". Variety, May 8, 2020.
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