2021 Year In Review Rider

Blake Ridder is an award winning British director, writer and actor. He is best known for writing and directing in the multi-award winning directorial debut feature film Help (2021). During the early part of Ridder's filmmaking career, he wrote, directed and starred in various short films, including the multi-award winning The English Teacher (2020).

Blake was born in Shanghai, China, later moved to UK with his parents at the age of nine. He began his acting career in 2017 and wrote and directed his first short film a year later. He is also the founder of Ridder Films, an independent production company based in London.