An AFI Directing Workshop for Women alumna, Tessa Blake is an award-winning writer/director whose films have premiered at Cannes and SXSW, have won awards at Nantucket Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, have been honored by the Academy, been released theatrically, and have played on Showtime, Oxygen, PBS & DirecTV. She and her husband Ian Williams also work as a writing team for film and television and have enjoyed script deals with ABC, NBC, FOX and Warner Brothers.
Emerging Filmmaker Showcase – Cannes Film Festival (Election Night) · SXSW – Premiere (Five Wives, Three Secretaries & Me) · Bahamas International Film Festival – Best of Fest (Leave Keys in Car) · Lady Filmmaker Film Festival – Best