An Evelia Filmworks & Silencio Projects Documentary feature

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY EDDIE SÁNCHEZ  |  PRODUCED BY MICHAEL ROGERSON  |  PRODUCED & ASSOCIATE DIRECTED BY EBEN SÁNCHEZ

Using present-day interviews and the VHS home movies his family once sent across the border, a filmmaker explores how and why his parents migrated to the U.S. from Mexico, revealing a personal mosaic of one family's struggle to reconcile two cultures between two generations.

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EVELIA FILMWORKS is a film production label hecho en los EEUU creating formally deliberate, socially reflective, and deeply personal stories that only cinema can tell.

EDDIE SÁNCHEZ is a New York City-based filmmaker born in Portland, Oregon to two immigrants from rural Jalisco, Mexico.

Eddie directs, edits, produces, and writes original films, videos, and series that explore interpersonal politics, class, language, race, and intimacy with humor and compassion. His feature-length directorial debut, Mexicanamerican, will world premiere in competition at the 2026 Tribeca Festival on June 9th. His other credits include Screwed, a web series written and created by Ben Weiss, music videos for up-and-coming recording artists, and promotional material for the Theater Development Fund.

Eddie’s film acting credits include the feature films When Icarus Fell, and Princess Cyd (Vanity Fair’s 10 Best Movies of the 2010s), and the web series Insignificant Other. On stage Eddie starred in Local Theater Company’s Paper Cut (Production of A Play Of The Decade, Denver region, BroadwayWorld).

Northwestern University, BA in Theatre (cum laude)