M. Blash

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M. Blash
Born1978 (age 4445) [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).

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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

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2006 Lying Director and writer [9]
2007 Paranoid Park Math Teacher [6]
2008 Wendy and Lucy Dan
2009Sibling Topics (Section A)Porn Foreign Peopled
2013 The Wait Director and writer [9]
2016 Kitty CopShort film

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