Blake Simons
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🎥 interview evangelist, freelance programmer, 2026 Daiwa Scholar
✍ romance, japan, animation, queer at @BFI @IndieWire @Variety @japantimes and more
Blake Simons’s Biography
Film journalist and programmer with a penchant for interviewing. Expert in contemporary Japanese cinema, romance on film, global queer cinemas, animation, Latin American cinemas, self-reflexivity, dialogues between videogames and film
2026 Daiwa Scholar. Co-director of London International Fantastic Film Festival
GALECA Member. Cineuropa GoCritic '24/'25, Far East Film Festival Campus '24. Founder of Queer Film Nights at King's College London