Blake Fitzpatrick

Blake Fitzpatrick is a professional American screenwriter, film director, film producer, cinematographer, stop-frame animator, film editor, engineer, author, programmer, video game developer, software architect, special effects artist, makeup effects artist, graphic designer, sculptor, painter, comedian, video jockey, musician, vocalist, web designer, photographer, social activist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and actor. He began his career as a child on the stage portraying Mozart in the school's production of the pianist's life at age seven, behind the keyboard at age six self-publishing books, newspapers, and programming software, and behind the camera the same year animating and directing local motion pictures on eight millimeter film and video tape. He first played a Yamaha grand piano at age four and would later go on to win many piano competitions before middle school. He gained national attention from the Associated Press and several other nationally syndicated newspapers at age fourteen for writing, producing, directing, filming, and editing the SOV production "Cannibal Cult" entirely on his own culminating in the beginning of a cult following of his multimedia production company Monumental Pictures. Critical acclaim followed when his feature film productions began playing in theaters and at film festivals. By the age of twenty-six, his feature films "The Death of Hollywood" and "Insignificant Celluloid" were accepted to every film festival they were entered into, the latter winning best picture at one beating eleven other nominees and the former beating out four. Fitzpatrick was born on April 22nd, 1985 in St. Louis, Missouri to Leslie Fitzpatrick, a piano teacher, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a finance professor. He has three siblings, an older brother, a younger brother, and a younger sister.