After slaving years on the edges of the Industry as an award-winning video and commercial director, Daniel Myrick struck filmmaking gold as one-half of the genius behind "The Blair Witch Project" (1999). From the beginning, he and his partner Eduardo Sanchez strove for the ultimate in realism, but the secret to their success lay in trusting the results of their guerilla filmmaking and allowing it to stand by itself rather than frame it with 1940s-style newsreel and TV documentary devices as they had originally intended. "I was scared shitless to just let it go, as is," recalled Myrick in the V
Met Eduardo Sanchez while both were students at the University of Central Florida's film school; worked on the abortive "Fortune" (a film about a witch) with Sanchez while there, among other projects
Worked with Sanchez and fellow University of Central Florida film school alumnus Gregg Hale on "Black Chapters", a "Twilight Zone"-style trilogy of short movies
1992
Won Alamo award for music video at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
1993
Established the Filmmaker's Alliance at Universal Studios in Orlando
