Grace Blake(I)
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Grace Blake is a renowned film producer and executive behind many of your favorite movies of the '80s and '90s and you probably didn't know. Her keen vision and storytelling made groundbreaking films like Silence of the Lambs, School Daze and The Wiz, major box-office hits and rewrote history as an African American female filmmaker. Blake is also the past Executive Director of the famed Apollo Theatre and past president of New York Women in Film and Television.
Blake came to the United States from Trinidad during the desegregation upheavals of the 1960's and made the leap from a secretarial jobs to her film career after visiting the set of the Sidney Poitier film "For Love of Ivy."
Blake came to the United States from Trinidad during the desegregation upheavals of the 1960's and made the leap from a secretarial jobs to her film career after visiting the set of the Sidney Poitier film "For Love of Ivy."