About Haxan Films
Despite worldwide reknown (notoriety?) for The Blair Witch Project, Haxan Films remains simply the creative shingle for the projects of…

Eduardo Sanchez
Born in Cuba, Eduardo Sanchez moved to Spain with his family and ultimately settled in Maryland where he discovered an early passion for film. He was 19 and attending Montgomery College when he wrote, directed and edited a video feature called VIDEOALL.

At 21, he made the award-winning independent feature GABRIEL’S DREAM, which he shot for $3000. Eduardo moved on to film school at the University of Central Florida where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in 1994.

In 1997, Eduardo co-wrote, co-edited and co-directed THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT with fellow UCF film alumni Dan Myrick. The $22,000 independent feature was snapped up for distribution at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and went on to become a world-wide cultural phenomenon, earning an estimated $250 million at the box office, thus became one of the most profitable films ever made. Eduardo designed and built the original BLAIRWITCH.COM website, which hailed in a whole new use of web-marketing for a motion picture. He also co-directed the highly-rated TV special CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH for the SCI-FI Channel.

Since the release of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, Eduardo has co-written four feature scripts and will produce one of them, the thriller BAD MOON RISING, in late 2006. He has also directed award-winning commercials, including Chelsea Pictures Beta 7 advertising campaign for Sega ESPN NFL Football, which won Addy, Clio, Yahoo! Big Idea and Golden Pencil awards.

Eduardo has just finished ALTERED, his feature film follow-up to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. ALTERED is the story of five men whose lives are ruined by an alien abduction. It will be distributed by ROGUE PICTURES.

Eduardo lives with his wife, Stefanie, and their two children, Bianca and Lucas, in Frederick, Maryland.

Gregg Hale
Gregg Hale was born in Selma, Alabama but his hometown is really Henderson, Kentucky.  One collegiate year at Western Kentucky University full of theater, ballerinas and tequila somehow led to four years in the Army.  After serving in the Special Forces, he moved to Orlando, Florida where he went to film school at both Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida.

He worked as a set dresser and prop man on features and TV shows in Orlando and LA for ten years before producing THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in 1999. Gregg was honored to receive the Nova Award as outstanding new producer from the Producer’s Guild of America for his work on that film.

Gregg co-created the television series FREAKYLINKS for Fox Television and produced the show’s website which is still one of the most extensive works of “e-fiction” ever presented on the Internet. Gregg has directed a number of award-winning regional and national television commercials. His first (and only, so far) feature film as director, SAY YES QUICKLY, played in film festivals nationwide in 2005 and won Best Feature at the IndieMemphis festival.

In addition to his film work, he is one of the Executive Creative Directors at Campfire, one of the ad industry’s leaders in interactive and online advertising.  His most recent long-form film projects were ALTERED, a sci-fi/horror film which was purchased and released by Rogue Pictures and SEVENTH MOON, a supernatural thriller starring Amy Smart that is just beginning its festival run.

Gregg lives in New York City with his wife, Adrian, and daughter, Amelia.

Michael Monello
Michael Monello is currently in production on a documentary film under the Haxan banner and has two more documentaries in development. Recently, Mike has been involved in developing online narratives for several commercial clients. He is also teaching a class at his alma matter, called Guerilla Marketing for Independent Filmmakers.

Daniel Myrick
Daniel Myrick has written and directed feature films, television specials, and commercials, most famously the award winning smash hit “The Blair Witch Project.” With “Blair Witch,” Myrick co-created one of the most innovative and highest-grossing independent films of all time, coupled with one of the most popular and influential websites in the history of motion pictures. Today, it still retains the highest ratio of box office gross to production budget of any theatrical film.

Myrick recently wrapped post-production on SOLSTICE, which he also co-wrote and directed and will debut in theaters in 2007. Also set for release on October 16th, 2007 is BELIEVERS from Warner Home Video and he currently completed production on OBJECTIVE, which wrapped principal photography in Morocco this May.

Daniel’s represented by Industry Entertainment Management and the Endeavor Talent Agency.

Robin Cowie
Robin is an internet entrepreneur, filmmaker, television producer and President of World Wide Brands . One of the producers of The Blair Witch Project, he is the recipient of the Nova Award from the Producers Guild of America, the Independent Spirit Award from the Independent Feature Project, the Prix de Jeuvenes from the Cannes Film Festival, and the Professional Achievement Award from the University of Central Florida. His latest film project, Altered, was recently released by Rogue Pictures.

Cowie has been the principal executive in three startup companies. At Hollywood Cows Inc., a commercial production company, he grew the company from start up to a multi-million dollar organization which he sold to enter into the world of feature filmmaking.   At Haxan Films, he participated in the production of two television series, the development of 3 feature films, and numerous internet projects. Haxan was the successful production company behind Blair Witch and Altered - both projects used the internet extensively and both returned high yield profits to investors. Over the last 4 years he took Worldwide Brands Inc. from a customer base of around 10,000 to over 100,000 active internet entrepreneur members with annual revenues in excess of $5 million dollars.

He is currently developing a new animated television series, Farm Force, with the Kids WB, a children’s book series called The Oddlings, and a family horror film (think Gremlins). His first book eBay Performance! will be published this spring. He is currently the host of two weekly radio shows The Entrepreneur Magazine eBiz Show and The Entrepreneur Magazine Product Sourcing Show. He has toured the country teaching for eBay University and has been a key speaker at eBay’s national convention for the last 4 years.

Born and raised in Durban, South Africa, Cowie immigrated to the United States when he was a teenager. He attended the University of Central Florida Film School where he realized his talent for producing by raising almost $1 million for a 35 mm student film.

He worked at Nickelodeon before helping to launch The Golf Channel. He has produced numerous television specials and hundreds of commercials.

Bob Eick
Bob Eick was born and raised in Bridgeport, CT. After four years of college up in Boston, he arrived in New York and started a career on Wall Street, starting his life in equity research. After going to New York University graduate school, he left the traditional Wall Street job and went to work for a small investment firm which has been taken over twice in the last seven years. His background on Wall Street has been in trading, banking and sales.

This background in finance made him an integral part in the production of The Blair Witch Project on which he served as the Executive Producer on with Ed Sanchez, Gregg Hale and Robin Cowie, both in bringing the film to the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and especially after the film was purchased by Artisan Films.

Always a film buff, he served as one of the producers of Gregg Hale’s debut feature film, Say Yes Quickly. He re-teamed with Hale and Sanchez in 2005 to serve as the Executive Producer of Altered and again in 2008 as Executive Producer for Seventh Moon.  Bob brings a tremendous amount of business and financial knowledge with him to every project. Bob spends much of his time on charitable boards as well such as Gilda’s Club Worldwide and was recently appointed by the Governor of the State of Connecticut to serve on the Connecticut Development Authority.