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AKA: Eduardo Sanchez
Nationality: Cuban
Birthdate: 00/00/1968
Birthplace: Cuba
biography
One-half of the brainpower behind "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) phenomenon, Cuban-born Eduardo Sanchez (along with co-editor-screenwriter-director Daniel Myrick) engineered one of the greatest rags-to-riches stories in cinema history, putting hope into the hearts of independent filmmakers everywhere that they too might someday make a blockbuster for peanuts. Central to their success was a potent premise that enabled them to turn all the weaknesses of low-budget filmmaking into the picture's strengths. Fed up with a genre that had come to rely on irony and special effects, they conceived the
Met Daniel Myrick while both were students at the University of Central Florida's film school; worked on the abortive "Fortune" (a film about a witch) with Myrick while there, among other projects
Worked with Myrick and Gregg Hale on "Black Chapters", a Twilight Zone-style trilogy of short movies
1997
With Myrick and fellow University of Central Florida film school alumni Hale, Mike Monello and Robin Cowie founded Haxan (from the 1920s Swedish documentary "Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages"), a company which initially made ads and industrial films
