Perry Blackshear is a filmmaker from North Carolina. He earned his MFA in Directing from NYU Graduate Film School. His first feature 'They Look Like People,'became an international film festival darling and won dozens of awards including the grand jury awards at Slamdance, IFF Boston, and Nashville. It went on to play theatrically before landing at Netflix. His second feature film 'The Siren'was acquired by Dark Sky, and his third 'Soul Eater'is in post-production. Perry recently sold an original TV show to Netflix and completed a writing project for Amazon. Perry enjoys joy-sobbing to music and friends that are like family.