Eduardo Sánchez

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Eduardo Sanchez (actually Eduardo Miguel Sanchez-Quiros ; born December 20, 1968 ) is an American film director , screenwriter and producer .

Beginnings and school days

Eduardo Sánchez was born in Cuba and studied at the University of Central Florida School of Film from 1990 to 1994 . During his studies he worked on various smaller film projects together with his fellow student and later colleague and business partner Daniel Myrick .

successes

Eduardo Sánchez's professional breakthrough came with his colleague Daniel Myrick in 1999 with the film The Blair Witch Project . This pseudo-documentary horror film was inspired by the television show In Search of ... , in which staged recordings of inexplicable phenomena such as B. UFOs were presented as supposedly real. The Blair Witch Project received enormous public attention, especially through clever public relations work on the Internet, as it was suggested that the actually fictitious and staged film consisted of authentic film material that documented the last days of three film students before they disappeared without a trace in 1994 . (For more information, see main article on The Blair Witch Project .)

The Blair Witch Project was established in 1997 with a budget of only 35,000 US dollars realized, played in its theatrical release in 1999 but the world over 248 million US dollars. Due to the considerable return on sales, The Blair Witch Project is considered one of the (economically) most successful films of all time and replaced the record holder Mad Max in the Guinness Book of Records . (Only the porn film Deep Throat from 1972 has an even better cost-profit ratio.) The sequel Blair Witch 2 , which is significantly more expensive at 15 million US dollars , could not come close to the box office results of the first film. In 2012 he directed the horror thriller Lovely Molly with Alexandra Holden and Johnny Lewis in the lead role. His next project after Lovely Molly is Exists , which he realized together with Jamie Nash in 2012 . Like its first big success The Blair Witch Project, the project will also be filmed in found footage style. In 2012 he also worked on the 2013 direct-to-DVD production of the anthology horror film V / H / S 2 alongside The Raid director Gareth Huw Evans and Jason Eisener ( Hobo with a Shotgun ).

Others

Sanchez has been married to Stefanie DeCassen since 2000, with whom he has one child.

For Blair Witch Project , he received a fee of 4 million US dollars retrospectively .

Filmography

as a director

as a screenwriter

  • 1992: Star Trek Demented
  • 1994: Gabriel's Dream
  • 1999: Blair Witch Project (also editor)
  • 1999: Curse of the Blair Witch (TV movie)
  • 2000: Blair Witch 2
  • 2011: Lovely Molly
  • 2014: Exists

as an actor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SXSW 2012 Exclusive Interview: Eduardo Sanchez and Gretchen Lodge Discuss Lovely Molly, Upcoming Projects and More
  2. ↑ Exists: Eduardo Sánchez announces Big-Foot Horror
  3. ↑ V / H / S / 2 - Official site

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personal data
SURNAME Sánchez, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanchez-Quiros, Eduardo Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuba