Eric Eason

Eric Eason is an award-winning writer-director who has worked in the film industry for over 20 years on various projects in the US, Brazil and Argentina—from independent films to $150 million dollar studio projects.

His first feature, Manito, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. His second feature, Journey to the End of the Night, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and starred Brendan Fraser, Scott Glenn and Yaslin Bey. As a screenwriter, Eason has worked on dozens of films in and outside of the studio system and he wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated A Better Life, directed by Chris Weitz.