Date of Birth
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20-December-1967
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Place of Birth
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Cuba
(Latin America, Hurricane belt, Greater Antilles, Americas, North America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Eduardo Sanchez, Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros, Ed Sanchez, Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros, Edúardo Sanchez, Eduardo Sanchez, Ed Sanchez, Eduardo Sanchez
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Profession
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Film director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Film Editor, Actor
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Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros is a Cuban-born American director, most famous for co-directing and writing the 1999 psychological horror The Blair Witch Project with Daniel Myrick.
Born in 1967, Sánchez moved to Spain with his family at the age of two, before settling in the United States in 1972. He studied television production at Montgomery College in Maryland and obtained his B.A. degree from the University of Central Florida film department where he studied with Dr. Mary C. Johnson and Dr. Charles Harpole. In 1999, Sánchez was joint-recipient of the inaugural Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.
He is married to the former Stefanie De Cassan and lives with her and their children in the greater Washington, DC area.
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