Eric Steel
Radio: Bio of Eric Steel
October 8, 2006
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Eric Steel is the producer and director of 2006's "The Bridge." He began his career as a creative executive at Walt Disney Pictures after graduating from Yale University in 1985. Later he worked as a vice president at Cinecom, at the time, the leading art film distributor.
Shifting gears, he decided to take a position as an editor at Simon & Schuster and then as a senior editor at HarperCollins, where he published many noted and award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction.
In 1995, he became senior vice president of Scott Rudin Productions. Along with the acquisition and development of many of the company¹s most prominent feature projects, he was the executive producer of "Angela's Ashes," and co-producer of "Bringing Out The Dead" and "Shaft."
In 2003, Steel formed his own company, Easy There Tiger, and is currently developing several documentaries and features, including "Julie/Julia," a co-production with Amy Robinson, based on the book of the same title by Julie Powell to be written and directed by Nora Ephron for Columbia Pictures.
"The Bridge" is Eric Steel¹s directorial and documentary debut.
-- Bio provided by Eric Steel
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