Blaire Baron Larsen is a 3rd generation documentary filmmaker, storyteller, writer. As a child, she watched her father spin reels of 16mm film on the breakfast table, where he cut over 21 travel-adventure films. Her first job (at age 10) was to cut splices of film for editing. “We have to tell the a story here.”
She has worked for the past 20 years as an actor (appeared on Broadway, in over 50 TV shows and films as “Blaire Baron”). She recently wrote, produced and starred in the radio satire, RAVENHURST for Air America. In 1934, Blaire’s grandfather, renowned global adventurer, Edwin Williams, was the first and only American accepted into the Moscow Film Institute (GIK) to study with Sergei Eisenstein. THE WANDERLUST is about his life and love affair with Gwen Van de Kik, Blaire’s pre-feminist/activist grandmother.
THE WANDERLUST is currently a semifinalist (top 108 cut from 5500 scripts) at the Nicholl Fellowhip in Screenwriting (The Academy). It won for Best Drama, 2007 at IndieGathering. It is a current finalist at Writemovies.com. Blaire’s new documentary Women in Boxes, about Magic Assistants, is due for a March release. For more on her film, go to www.womeninboxes.com.