Eduardo Sánchez
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 ultimate campfire ghost story, a 200-year-old legend about an outcast, a cursed town and a series of child murders and unexplained disappearances. Long before they had assembled their actors, they created an eight-minute trailer that was essentially a mock documentary of the back story of the Blair Witch. A fortuitous meeting with John Pierson led to the trailer playing on Pierson's "Split Screen" (Independent Film Channel) in 1997, and the strong reaction from many viewers buying into it as a genuine story buoyed their enthusiasm.
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Eduardo Sánchez
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghost Game | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
25% |
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The Jester | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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Last Night at Terrace Lanes | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
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Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity | Self | - | 2021 |
0% |
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Portals | Film Editing | - | 2019 |
38% |
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Blair Witch | Executive Producer | $20.7M | 2016 |
39% |
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Exists |
Director, Film Editing |
- | 2014 |
70% |
|
V/H/S/2 |
Director, Screenwriter |
$21.4K | 2013 |
46% |
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Lovely Molly |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Jedi Junkies | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Seventh Moon |
Director, Writer |
- | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Altered | Director | - | 2006 |
14% |
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 | Producer | $26.4M | 2000 |
86% |
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The Blair Witch Project |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
$140.5M | 1999 |
TV
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98% | 79% | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Director | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 44% | FBI: International | Director | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 78% | CSI: Vegas | Director | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Charmed | Director | 2022 |
66% | 47% | American Horror Stories | Director | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Nancy Drew | Director | 2021 |
93% | 73% | Supernatural | Director | 2016 2018 2020 |
67% | 96% | The InBetween | Director | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 85% | From Dusk Till Dawn | Director | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 1999 |