Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received the B.The. within English literature & an M.F.The. around theater. Below his university education he founded his own production company, Flower Films, & tons of his films since that instance have been independently produced, typically by owning a assistance of grants from either ethnical agents, two governmental & non-governmental.

Virtually all of his films revolve around Our contries traditional music forms including (among others) blues, Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, Tex-Mex, polka, tamburica, and Hawaiian musics. Numbers of one films come a simply filmed documents of musicians world health organization come today deceased person.

Blank's films focusing in musical cases typically spend tremendously of their heading period focusing non on the music itself however on the music's ethnical context, lending richness to the portrayals of the surroundings from either which these U.s. roots musics are.

More guiding light films in non-musical cases include the film just about garlic and another all about gap-toothed women. His virtually all recent task, White Feathers, Black Bones, begun within 1997 and as yet unreleased, occurs as profile of the Berkeley, California-based tea importer and adventurer David Lee Hoffman.

Blank sleep in California.