Blanche Enaka is a Cameroonian American award-winning artist, who was born and raised in Riverdale, GA. She is a genre-bending writer, director, composer, and musician. She is passionate about southern, comedic storytelling, centering folks across the LGBTQ+ community and the African diaspora. Her films explore familial dynamics, spirituality, romance, social justice, and afro-surreal worlds through a feminist lens. 

She has an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program, and a B.M. from NYU Steinhardt’s Music Business Undergraduate Program. Blanche wrote, directed, produced, edited, scored and starred in her short film Mercury Afrograde. She was awarded NewFest’s Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Director Award in 2020, and received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Short at the Woodstock Film Festival. Blanche’s work has screened at: Blackstar Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Outfest Fusion, NewFest, Woodstock Film Festival, Afrikana Film Festival, and Inside Out Festival, among others. She has worked on award-winning films that have screened at Sundance, Cannes Film Festival, SXSW, and Palm Springs International Film Festival, to name a few. She was selected for Gotham’s 2021 TV-Series Lab, and their Project Market, with her series Mercury Afrograde. Her music video, Chasing Amour, was featured in Forbes. She acted in Pepi Ginsberg’s film, The Pass, which was an official selection at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Blanche was a recipient of the first NewFest and Netflix’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, with her short film Free the Buns. She was chosen as a composer for New Music USA’s Reel Change Grant Program in 2024. Blanche is currently developing a coming-of-age feature film, and a comedic-surreal television show set in the south.