---
name: "Eduardo Sánchez"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eduardo-sanchez"
fi1m_id: "eduardo-sanchez"
imdb_id: "nm0844896"
tmdb_id: 26850
wikidata_id: "Q1291210"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "20 December 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "director"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T04:12:06.604215+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Eduardo Sánchez

## Identity

Eduardo Sánchez

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eduardo-sanchez
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eduardo-sanchez
- **IMDb ID:** nm0844896
- **TMDB ID:** 26850
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1291210
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_S%C3%A1nchez_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291210, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26850

Director. Born 20 December 1968 in Cuba.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 20 December 1968, Cuba
- **Active:** 1999–present
- **Also known as:** Eduardo Sanchez, Ed Sanchez, Edúardo Sanchez, Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros, Edúardo Sánchez, Ed Sánchez
- **Frequently works with:** [Bille Woodruff](https://film.one/person/bille-woodruff.md), [Davy Perez](https://film.one/person/davy-perez.md), [Gregg Hale](https://film.one/person/gregg-hale.md), [Jeffrey W. Byrd](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-w-byrd.md), [Mark Tonderai](https://film.one/person/mark-tonderai.md), [Richard Speight Jr.](https://film.one/person/richard-speight-jr.md), [Robbie Thompson](https://film.one/person/robbie-thompson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2000s 77 (1), 2020s 76 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Mystery 3, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 1 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $249m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_S%C3%A1nchez_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291210, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844896/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26850

## Coming up

- *Untitled Blair Witch Film* (2027-09-24), Characters

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md) (77), [*Yellowjackets*](https://film.one/tv/yellowjackets.md) (76)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Blair Witch Project*](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md) (84)
- **Peacock:** [*Supernatural*](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Eduardo Sánchez

> Eduardo Sánchez knows how to make people getting lost frightening. We rate *The Blair Witch Project* for its performances and deliberately awkward footage, though it also shows his difficulty in knowing when to move on.

The camera is still recording, but nobody knows the way back. In *The Blair Witch Project* (1999), three student filmmakers take their documentary into the woods and lose the confidence that brought them there. Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, who share the writing, directing and editing, understand how filming something can give people a mistaken confidence that they understand it. We were frightened by the students’ growing helplessness, which made their cameras seem increasingly useless.

As editors, Myrick and Sánchez let the footage remain awkward enough to suggest that getting a tidy shot has become the least of anybody’s worries. The performances carry much of the fear, with the actors making the loss of nerve convincing. The editing respects what these people could plausibly have recorded. A more polished account would have made their predicament harder to believe.

His first solo feature, *Altered* (2006), took him into science-fiction horror. *Lovely Molly* (2011), which he wrote, directed and edited, explored possession through psychological horror. He continued experimenting with found footage in his *V/H/S/2* (2013) segment, “A Ride in the Park”, and the Bigfoot film *Exists* (2014). The subjects change, but the commitment to horror persists, with the camera itself remaining something he can experiment with rather than simply a means of recording the action.

The reservation is already there in *The Blair Witch Project*. Even at 81 minutes, it keeps returning to panic that no longer tells us anything new about the people experiencing it. We are ready for a change before the filmmakers supply one. Their patience makes the fear convincing, but they do not always recognise when a scene has done its work, and the repetition costs a short film some of its force.

From the mid-2010s, Sánchez also became a regular director of television episodes, including *Supernatural*, *Yellowjackets* and *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds*. That work has continued alongside occasional horror features, so a list of his films tells only part of the story. Start with *The Blair Witch Project*, for the performances as much as the fear, and allow its directors a little more panic than they need.

## Biography

Eduardo Sánchez is a Cuban-born American film director, screenwriter and editor. He was born on 20 December 1968 in Havana and moved to the United States as a child. He is best known for co-directing, co-writing and co-editing the 1999 found-footage horror film *The Blair Witch Project* with Daniel Myrick.

Sánchez studied television production at Montgomery College in Maryland and film at the University of Central Florida. With Myrick he received the inaugural Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award in 1999. He has directed further horror features including *Altered* (2006), *Seventh Moon* (2008), *Lovely Molly* (2011) and *Exists* (2014), and has worked on television series such as *Lucifer*, *Supernatural* and *Yellowjackets*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md)
- *Yellowjackets* (2021), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/yellowjackets.md)
- *Supernatural* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md)
- *The Blair Witch Project* (1999), Fi1m 84, Editor, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Untitled Blair Witch Film* (2027), Characters, Executive Producer
- *The Influencer Project* (2026), Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-influencer-project.md)
- *For Sale By Exorcist* (2026), Producer
- *Breeder* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Goosebumps: The Vanishing* (2025), series, Director
- *Hysteria!* (2024), series, Director
- *Ghost Game* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Last Night at Terrace Lanes* (2024), Producer
- *Disney 100: Remember That* (2023), Producer
- *The Jester* (2023), Producer
- *The Horror of Dolores Roach* (2023), series, Director
- *Will Trent* (2023), series, Director
- *Satanic Hispanics* (2022), Director, Editor
- *El Vampiro* (2022), Director
- *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds.md)
- *The Tunnel: The Other Side of Darkness* (2021), Actor
- *Yellowjackets* (2021), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/yellowjackets.md)
- *CSI: Vegas* (2021), series, Director
- *FBI: International* (2021), series, Director
- *Fantasy Island* (2021), series, Director
- *American Horror Stories* (2021), series, Director
- *NEXT* (2020), series, Director
- *50 States of Fright* (2020), series, Writer
- *Portals* (2019), Director, Editor
- *Nancy Drew* (2019), series, Director
- *The InBetween* (2019), series, Director
- *Charmed* (2018), series, Director
- *FBI* (2018), series, Director
- *Taken* (2017), series, Director
- *12 Deadly Days* (2016), series, Director
- *Blair Witch* (2016), Executive Producer, Characters
- *Queen of the South* (2016), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Lucifer* (2016), series, Director
- *Intruders* (2014), series, Director
- *Exists* (2014), Director, Story, Editor
- *From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series* (2014), series, Director
- *Four Corners of Fear* (2013), series, as Eduardo Sanchez · Producer, Story, Director
- *V/H/S/2* (2013), Director
- *Ninjas vs. Monsters* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Lovely Molly* (2011), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Small Hours* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Midnight Son* (2011), Executive Producer
- *ParaAbnormal* (2009), series, Director, Creator
- *Seventh Moon* (2008), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Altered* (2006), as Monger Warrior · Director
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/supernatural.md)
- *Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2* (2000), Executive Producer, Characters
- *Sticks and Stones: Investigating the Blair Witch* (1999), as Interviewer (voice) · Director, Writer
- *The Blair Witch Project* (1999), Director, Writer, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md)
- *Curse of the Blair Witch* (1999), Writer, Director
- *Experiment 11*, Executive Producer
- *Petersons: Site 3*, Executive Producer
- *Last Look*, Co-Director
- *Griffin's Ghost*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Eduardo Sánchez](https://film.one/media/person/89002/gallery-831928a13ec9.jpg) Eduardo Sánchez — Image via TMDB
- ![Eduardo Sánchez](https://film.one/media/person/89002/gallery-8000373aed66.jpg) Eduardo Sánchez — Image via TMDB
- ![Eduardo Sánchez](https://film.one/media/person/89002/gallery-6c05e4709057.jpg) Eduardo Sánchez — Image via TMDB
- ![Eduardo Sánchez](https://film.one/media/person/89002/gallery-0ca998f83516.jpg) Eduardo Sánchez — Image via TMDB

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