Eric Steel

Trivia

• In 2003, Eric 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 (Little Brown, Fall 2005), screenplay by Dana Stevens, for Columbia Pictures.
• Along with the acquisition and development of many of the company's most prominent feature projects, he was the Executive Producer of Angela's Ashes, and Co-Producer of Bringing Out The Dead and Shaft.
• In 1995, he became Senior Vice President of Scott Rudin Productions.
• 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.
• Later he worked as a Vice President at Cinecom, at the time the leading art film distributor.
• Eric Steel began his career as a creative executive at Walt Disney Pictures.
• In obtaining permits to film the bridge for one year, Eric Steel did not reveal to Golden Gate Bridge officials that his goal was to film people committing suicide by leaping off the bridge.
• Steel's most controversial work and his first attempt at directing is the 2006 documentary The Bridge.