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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EDDIE SÁNCHEZ is an award-winning NYC-based filmmaker originally from Portland, Oregon. He directs, writes, produces, and edits original films, videos, and series exploring interpersonal politics, class, language, race, and intimacy with humor and compassion.

His feature-length directorial debut, MEXICANAMERICAN, had its world premiere in competition at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature and was named one of seven festival highlights by The New York Times. His other directing credits include music videos for NYC independent recording artists and the webseries SCREWED.

In his previous work as an actor, Eddie appeared in the feature films WHEN ICARUS FELL and PRINCESS CYD (Vanity Fair’s 10 Best Movies of the 2010s), the webseries INSIGNIFICANT OTHER, and Local Theater Company’s world premiere production of PAPER CUT (Production of a Play of the Decade, Denver region, BroadwayWorld). Northwestern University, BS cum laude.