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- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- Vivid shots.
- Snappy, snarky dialogue.
- Egomaniacal characters.
- Offensive subject matters.
- Satirical irony.
- Usually writes, produces, directs, photographs, and edits his films.
- Wrote an "I Am Legend" screenplay based on the book by Richard Matheson which brought new interest to the material by Warner Brothers. It was hailed by Matheson fans.
- Publicly disowns the 16/9 re-cut of "Trilogie De Tragedie" that has been distributed nationally from the original subtitled 1:66:1 version. This incident has made him distrustful of distribution companies.
- If making movies was easy, everyone would be doing it.
- Loneliness is a fact of life. The sooner we realize we are always and will always be alone, the sooner we can free our minds to accomplish greater things. We try and try to make ourselves think we are not alone by surrounding ourselves with friends or lovers, but at the end of the day, we always end up alone.
- You've gotta have the hide of a rhinoceros to survive in entertainment.
- Originality is the weight placed onto people's shoulders that they quickly want to be free from. It embarrasses them that they don't understand it. They don't want people to know that they are intrigued by something new because that would alienate them from the pack. They want to be normal and fit in. They like having a pre-recorded laugh track telling them when they're supposed to laugh and their friends letting them know what album is supposed to be hip at the moment. If admiring the obscure is socially unacceptable then I guess those that I appreciate the most are socially handicapable.
- People think that I'm nuts for turning down every distribution contract that I've ever been offered. I just think of myself as practical considering the current state of things.
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